Tuesday was my 53rd birthday. While 53 is not a significant birthday, it is still a milestone and something to celebrate. Here are 53 random things that blessed me in the past year.
- Celebrating my 52nd birthday
- Pumpkin pie for my birthday (I like pie more than cake)
- Weekly Leadership Team Care Team
- Monthly strategic meetings with my team at work
- Building a new greenhouse for our garden
- Desserts & Dice
- Trip through the Great Smokey Mountains
- Hosting Thanksgiving at our home
- Hosting Lyons’ family 2022 New Thanksmas at our home
- Finishing puzzles
- Extended Christmas break and time with family
- Oubache Christmas Lights
- Marion Christmas Lights
- Game nights with friends
- SIL Leadership Pillars event
- Seeing Les Miserable with Angie and college friends
- Publishing our Knightlife newsletter
- Finally having trees large enough for a hammock in my yard
- Putting in the final wheelchair access raised garden beds
- Missional AI Conference
- My daughter, Rachel, earning her Master’s Degree
- Upland Farmer’s Market
- Fort Wayne Cherry Blossom Festival
- Rachel and Sam’s wedding
- Canning Jams
- Harvesting winter garlic and making pesto
- Rachel accepting her first job and moving to Dayton, OH
- SIL Language Technology Leadership Team Retreat
- Pastoral counseling
- Having guests in our guest room
- Blackberry harvest
- Canning Peaches
- Assure Alliance Retreat
- Eating sun warmed tomatoes from the garden
- Robert joining SIL as our Talent Acquisition Manager
- Raspberry harvest
- The birth of Silas, our friends’ first child
- Canning dill pickles
- Grace Church Game Nights
- My first caregiver respite since COVID
- Trip to Cherokee, NC
- Paratext Summit
- Weekly Playstation games with my brothers-in-law
- Receiving my copy of Purim, the last board game I edited
- Planting sour cherry trees in our garden
- Incredible harvest from our garden this year
- Lunches with my step-dad who is working on a project in nearby town
- Stephen Ministry of our church
- Painting miniatures
- Ring of Fire solar eclipse
- Bible Translation Conference
- Blogging my musings
- Celebrating my 53rd birthday
Amazing how humbling it is when you take the time to list your blessings in the past year. This list was a wonderful birthday gift to myself. Have you ever made a list like this?
Happy 53rd Birthday