It's My Birthday, so there!

Today I turn 48, yes that's 2 years shy of a half a century. My son turns 16 a month from today. Milestones galore!! As I near that half-century mark, I begin to realize that I've probably lived more than half my life. I'm not a kid anymore. The dreams, they become more realistic. The aches and pains a bit greater. But then I think of some of my parishioners -- in their 70s and 80s and even 90s -- who keep on trucking. Life is a journey and milestones remind us from whence we came. Life is different than I had expected, but that's true of us all. But in the end, life is what we make of it. I'm glad I've not traveled this road alone. God has been with me, most often in the persons of church people who have encouraged me and supported me. I think of Sunday School teachers and youth pastors, college profs and seminary profs, friends and companions -- Paul Sabo and John Harmon, Ray Wheeler and Del Ford, Dennis Helsabeck and Herb Works, Jim Bradley and Keith Watkins, Tom, Patty, Kari, Peggy and Jan, my mom Bev and my wife, Cheryl. It is good to know that we don't walkt this path alone! And now it is my church in Lompoc. Everyone of them is a blessing to me!!

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Anonymous said…
Hey Bob, just to show you arent alone, I'm posting to say "Happy Birthday" and best wishes from Britain, where its a chilly -2 degrees.
Your academic work is being quoted in a forthcoming essay on the University of Florence Cyber Review of Modern Historiography Seminar at http://www.cromohs.unifi.it/eng/index.html
So your achievements dont stop at the pastoral and family, but extend to academe.
Best wishes

Bill
Danny Bradfield said…
Happy birthday!

Danny
(former pastor of FCC Morro Bay, now living north of Sacramento

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