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I celebrate the persistence of caring, above, around and through all the winding roads of a life that has contained children and grandchildren, vocations and avocations, exuberant days and days of great grayness.<\/p>\n

I celebrate the unfailing faithful presence, despite the parts of our growing selves that have diverged like two roads in a wood.<\/p>\n

I celebrate the inquiring mind that has taught me to look up, look out, look around the multi-layered worlds of creation and human enterprise to \u201csee rare beasts and to have excellent adventures.\u201d<\/p>\n

I celebrate the energy of new ideas, new horizons, new passions that he has been willing to share and explain, sometimes with great labor.<\/p>\n

I celebrate the joie de vivre that he has shown me in teaching me to trust and to hope, to believe that there is sun, even when it is not shining.<\/p>\n

I celebrate the gracious forgiveness which has incarnated for me to show me that there are no final defeats in this human enterprise called loving.<\/p>\n

And I celebrate the Love that has been an intimation of Divine Love that has stayed with me almost since we met. It is not a perfect Love. It is not a perfect Person. But he is a human gift of God\u2019s Grace who not only has given again and again to me, but has facilitated my own journey to become the Person I am intended to be in my life of Spirit.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t really know how we happened all those years ago. I only know that Grace evokes great gratitude, and on this celebration of my Beloved\u2019s birthday, I give deep thanks to the Holy One for that gift. I pray that his day and new year of life will be showered with the Love of the Triune God, who has taught us together the rhythms of Grace.<\/p>\n

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