Just Another Birthday?

I wrote this on my birthday which was Friday but have just now gotten around to posting it.

I was praying this morning about how even though today is my birthday, it's still just another day like any other. No more special, no less special. No reason to make much of me. And this is what I heard the Lord speak so sweetly to my heart.

"Today IS a special day because this is the day I created from eternity for you to be born. Thirty four years ago, nine months after I knit you together in your mothers womb, I gazed upon you as your mother gave birth to another one of my much loved and treasured creatures. Not one day too early and not one day too late. This is the day your journey with me began. This is the day I said to all the hosts of heaven, "It's time." It's November 2, 1973 and today Natalie Suzanne Faulk will be born in Dothan, AL. I will watch her, I will love her, I will be her God and she will be my child. I'll never leave her, or forsake her while she is walking on that foreign planet. I'll keep her safe until I finally bring her safely home."

Now I look at my birthday totally different. Now I close my eyes and say thank you Lord for creating me. I don't know why He decided that I needed to be born on that day and in that year, but I know that He did so with a plan. It's the same with you. He planned from eternity to put you here at the exact moment you were born. So, the next time your birthday rolls around, remember it was no accident, no coincidence that you were born on that day and in that year. It was carefully designed by the Master.