Even though my birthday was almost a month ago at present, there was a funny episode that I probably won't forget for a while – and neither will my friends. I am someone who LOVES birthdays. I love planning parties, surprises, and getting cake and treats for others. Birthdays are special and unique and I recollect they should exist celebrated. I know often people don't savor their birthday because they don't want attending and feel they've washed zippo to deserve it. But I disagree, I think people should gloat who they are – who God has made them to exist. To recall the blessings and hardships of the past year, thank God for His grace, and expect ahead with hope to whatsoever is next.

When it comes to my birthday I feel the aforementioned. I love being celebrated and feeling special. I love feeling loved! I don't think its necessarily narcissistic or prideful to experience such things on your altogether. Peculiarly considering God loves united states, and wants u.s. to know that. He wants us to feel loved, treasured, valued and adored. Simply despite all the birthday fun, I'm terrible with surprises. In fact I really despise them during the rest of the year! I always thought I would Beloved surprises – so when people try to surprise me I get aroused. You can add that to the list of weird and unusual things most me. Merely I like control, I like knowing what's going on. I LOVE planning surprises for others, merely I hate receiving them.

So this year my birthday was really fun but fairly depression key. I had a wonderful breakfast with my mom in the morn and then I spent most of the day in Hamilton with my friends. We walked effectually the downtown stores and then toured Dundurn Castle, which was marvelous and lots of fun! Nosotros came back to Guelph and then we served downtown at a Saturday nighttime dinner that my church was hosting. It was great and tons of fun and some of my other friends joined united states there. Later on nosotros decided to go back to my friends house to hang out and maybe play some games. But, we realized that we needed to become fries and salsa so we had to make a stop a Zhers.

photo 1 Now my friends were thinking, oh Erin will only go in and purchase the fries and salsa then come straight out. Nosotros tin trust that she can get into the store by herself. But when I went into the shop I started to call up nearly how much I beloved cake (which my friends know). And information technology would be so cute to have a little block that we could all eat! I know Zhers has picayune cute cakes for only $10, and then I thought I should become ane so that we could all eat cake. My friends were so low key that I didn't think they would get me a block – and it was my birthday! I wanted cake. And so I bought it. And my friends were mad – they thought it was stupid that I would purchase a cake for myself on my birthday. I thought the block was cute.

photo 2Fiddling did I know that my friends were surprising me with another cake. One they had made themselves – and busy. My friend Kathryn who fabricated it, does henna and piped the icing and it was GORGEOUS. It was and then much improve than my $x cake! Information technology had a sparkler in information technology, and those pearl cake decorations. It was so beautiful. And I felt so stupid. I thought my friends wouldn't make me a block, so I went ahead and got my ain.

So I realized how often is the case in my relationship with God. I rarely trust that He will provide for me. That He will work in my life. When I don't run across Him doing these things I tend to not trust that He'southward in that location behind the scenes. Then I usually forge ahead and practise things on my own.

But just like my cake, God's program for my life far exceeds anything I could ever create. My attempts at providing for myself are never as not bad, every bit when I trust God to atomic number 82 and direct. When I bought my own birthday block, it revealed how my heart so oftentimes fails at trusting God. Thankfully I accept loving and amazing friends that made me a beautiful block, and a loving and amazing God who graciously provides all of my needs. That at to the lowest degree is something worth celebrating.