Today is your Birth Day…the day God gave you to me and your dad. He created you to bear His image, and for a specific purpose…His specific purpose. I know deep within my soul that He gave you to me because He knew you would always be there for me… giving me Scripture truths to consider, holding me up when I needed a lift (both physically and spiritually),and being my JoyBoy for as long as you have lived on this earth (33 years as of today). How blessed I am by you, my son.

God knew you would marry this woman and have this child…the child who exudes your joyful personality and thereby warms my heart daily. And how we prayed for this “daughter”, joking throughout your high school years that we were praying you would marry a nurse to take care of you as you seemed to be accident prone from the time you could walk! And this daughter (now ours to claim also) is just that! A nurse with the highest calling … to be your wife and his moma. I breathe out my thanks daily for her, and for him.

God, in His ultimate creativity, bestowed His creative spirit within you…so much so that you now design, manage, plan and create for a company who notices your gifts and allows you to use them well. And again, I am thankful.

My son, the way you love and care for your own son makes me so proud. Through the love you share with them, I am so blessed.

And the way you love, care for and serve your wife? Well, you remind me of your father, and I couldn’t be more blessed there either. Thank you for loving her well, and for giving yourself up for her. Thank you for being all that God has created you to be…loving her and putting her needs above your own. Daily.

So here’s to you, my JoyBoy…on your 33rd Birth Day. Go – continue to be all that God has called you to me. And remember always that your moma is praying for you, and believes in you. I love you. Always.

~Moma