1. For your Birthday

2. My soul is as young
as the day
it was created.

3. Yes, and much younger.

4. In fact,
I am younger today
than I was yesterday.

5. And if I am not younger tomorrow
than I am today
I would be ashamed of myself.

6. People who dwell in God
dwell in the eternal now.

7. There, people can never grow old.

8. There, everything is present
and everything is new.

9. God is eternally young

10. God is ever green, ever verdant,
ever flowering.

11. Every action of God
is new,
for he makes
all things new.

12. God is the newest thing there is.
If we are united to him we become new again.
Hekhart

13. Happy
Birthday!