The triple eight.
I never thought about how my birthday would end up on a day lots of people find sacred. Specifically, the Chinese find the number eight lucky because the word also means fortune. So, needless to say, today is a very big day for them - not only because today is fortune, fortune, fortune day but also because the Summer Olympics are kicking off. (WHEE!)
While I don’t really believe in “lucky numbers,” today is still a special day for me. It is one that I will give thanks for, continuously, as much as I can remember today, because God brought me into this world twenty-six years ago and has sustained me ever since. This past year has got to be one of the most random years of my life but it has taught me a lot. (Maybe too much? HA!) It is my deepest desire that I take these things I’ve learned and use them to grow and mature in Jesus Christ. That’s it. That’s all I ask for this year. A reminder that my fortune, my wealth is eternal, it is in Christ Jesus.
For you formed my inward parts;
you knitted me together in my mother’s womb.
I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
//Psalm 139:13-14
By Magen Roberson, August 8, 2008 @ 10:21 am
Yay For Nina’s Birthday!
What a cool and unique date!
How fun to turn big 26
On the one-time 8-8-08!
By Jana, August 10, 2008 @ 7:56 am
Good post–way to see your birthday as some day that’s not completely about you but about Christ in you. Hope you had a great birthday!!
By kingamy, August 11, 2008 @ 9:38 pm
happy birthday, nina!
happy first day of the olympics, world!