🎈 BIRTHDAY!!! 🎈

First of all, My God gets all the praise always no matter what. For showing the perfect example of love by ‘giving’, sacrificially, and with the most perfect gift, my salvation through Christ. It cost me absolutely nothing, that’s how much you thought I was worth it. Thank you father for another year.

✨ 🎶 Birthday Song – Peace ✌🏾 by Hillsong Young & Free 🎶 ( https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1whZvfDhoy4 ) 

⚡️⚡️This birthday is special! ⚡️⚡️ ____ Allow me to tell you why. First, I’m alive 💃🏽. I’m blessed. I am healed. I am grateful. And I dedicate this birthday to certain special people I’m blessed to have ever crossed paths with in life.

_________ . 🎁🎁 . _________

In life, you’ll have high moments. Many will come out and celebrate or enjoy those moments with you, that’s easy! Then you will also have very low moments. Pay close attention during those moments ⚠️  Like in the parable of the Good Samaritan, though many will be aware of your low moment(s), surprisingly enough not many (yes even the ones most expected, in case you dared to expect) will bother to inconvenience their life routines not even a little, just to care for and love on you to make very certain that you get well and make it through. The very few (or in some people’s case “one”) who will make time, will also almost shock you especially with HOW they show up like the Good Samaritan; I don’t take these people for granted at all.

 Like the Good Samaritan, even if all they do for you interrupts their life schedules (and believe me they have a very full life schedule – spouses, children, and their own unexpected life yoyo moments to deal with to say the least), yet they still make time to listen to you cry as often as you need, offer and or send you funds if needed for the circumstances, sleep on the phone with you when you’re afraid, do errands for you even from thousands of miles away (yes this is real), share more words of comfort which awakens your hope, share wisdom and kind words or songs to cheer you up from that very low place.

Let’s be real, in those low moments it takes peeling up off the mattress just to out of bed, or how about thinking itself often becomes detrimental to your health. They don’t take advantage of you in your weak moments or think you got exactly what you deserved.

They don’t think of love in theory and then say things like ” I thought of you” or “I prayed for you today” or ” I meant to call you” like an afterthought .. no no, they intentionally show up and GIVE you love with actions. They remind you constantly of how loved you really are. And trust me you don’t know you need the reminder … until you really do. 

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 After a while, your days seem to get brighter and filled with hope again and you just keep pushing forward — So yeah, those people? 😍Cherish them . That’s love pouring from their heart(s) into you, to love you back to health. That’s God’s love working through those people because guess what? their hearts were willing to get used to serve you in such ways.

Those people will consistently make efforts and make time to show up and love you like they love themselves or their own bloodline; the latter being an easy role for us all to play when we choose to love our own families. These people do it like The Lord commands us to do, to love one another like we would ourselves; an act critical to life and death in many instances.

 This Birthday I am absolutely grateful for life and I celebrate those people in my life. You would think they at least live within 1-5 miles from me to make that much effort in-person, virtually or through the phone, nope not the case. They live over 1,500 miles away and I still receive such rich love and support. #EverGrateful 🎉 🎊 🎉

 ✨This Year is a special and Happy Birthday indeed!! I feel grateful but 💃🏽💃🏽  Most of all I am alive to even write this mini book 😜 #AuthorInTheMaking

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Shout out to my beautiful photographer : Wasidah Francois 💕

A very special thank you to all the beautiful birthday shout outs, prayers, blessings, gifts, songs, and well-wishing from my family, friends, and style blog readers who directly communicate with me via facebook; your kindness and expressions touched my heart immensely. I love you all and terribly miss those of you who live so far from NYC. God will bless you all in return for taking the second out of your time to give of yourselves in that way.

Huge hugs and kisses XOXO!