It all started when my sweet friend started talking about her birthday. Mia has Down Syndrome but she is so special to me. She has taught me so much about myself. Most people start talking about their birthday, if they talk about it at all, roughly a month before their actual birthday. Well not Mia. She starts talking about her birthday as soon as her last birthday passes. I'm not kidding! She is SO EXCITED for her birthday. She reminds me all the time. She shows me it in the calendar, she tells me when I am at church, when I teach her piano, whenever I see her, or whenever she is able to talk to me. I mean she is thrillled that it is HER SPECIAL DAY!
I must admit. I love my birthday a lot. I love birthdays in general actually. I get really excited for them. But she makes me seem pretty tame. All that to say, my parents and I were just laughing about how we (and her family and friends) find it so funny that she loves her birthday this much and how she makes sure everyone knows it is her birthday and no one will ever be able to forget that it is her birthday! And then my dad's comment struck me. He said, "Wouldn't it be great if everyone had that much exuberance for life as Mia does for her birthday?!" Wow. Okay. If we were all that enthusiastic about Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, and half of Friday, as we were for the weekend, and for any other vacation we get, how much we could get done! It's impossible to walk away from Mia without getting excited about life and birthdays in general. If we were that excited about life and even sharing the Gospel- how much work could we get done and how much joy we would exude in our every day life.
So as you (and me!) slug through our wonderful (ahem) Monday, just think how excited we used to be about a special day that we would look forward to for a long while, as a kid or teen, and how we would get so psyched for that special day-whatever that special day was! That is afterall how we are commanded to be excited about the Lord coming. Strikes me that I get stuck in routine and forget to look forward to that day and also just the joy of living life. So enjoy your Monday, your hectic week, and look forward to that weekend where you get to do something fun! (hopefully)
Happy 16th Birthday Mia! Hope you have a wonderful day on Wednesday! Thank you for teaching me so much by your enthusiasm for life! Love you!
Happy Monday Friends!
<3 Sarah
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