Happy Birthday to Me!

I was given many things this year. But I would have to say the best gift that I was given is the realization that every year is a gift. I said goodby to a friend right before she left this earth. It was a pivotal point in my life. She was a young mother who left behind two little babies, and a teenage son. She lived so well up to the very end. Only she knows now why she was chosen to move on. I will never say that cancer took her. I give the power to give and take to God only. I would never want to give "cancer" that much power. All I know is that nobody gets to choose how life goes from day to day. Each year is a blessing, we should treat it as an important one.