The Gift of "Today"
About 29 years ago, I found a birthday card that I ended up purchasing for Greg, my boyfriend at that time. Greg has since translated, however, I have kept a vigilant search in hopes of finding the message that was on that card. A few months back, I ran across "The Gift of Today" on the internet. It's very similar to the message on the card, so I jotted it down, the author was given as "unknown". I edited it a little, cutting back on some repetitive sentences and tried to make it to the point and every word necessary. I added the last sentence, remembering the final line of that birthday card of long ago, but I left out the reference of it being a birthday* and another year being "God's gift", otherwise, it'd make a nice wall plaque or decoupage. Anyways, I wanted to share these golden words of wisdom with you. Maybe they'll help you get creative. Feel free to use the image above if you'd like.
*Suggestion - Should you happen to use this for a birthday card for someone, you may want to throw a reference to "another year was given to you" and something like " Happy Birthday (NAME HERE)!", on the line below "That is why it's called The Present". If you're going to use the image above to help you out with your birthday card, when you print it, you may want to reverse the colors ( if your printer will do that) if not, copy then take the image to a program that you can edit it in, thereby reversing the colors. It'll give you a white background with color reversal.
Oh yeah, if it's too much for you to edit and make the additions, feel free to left click on the picture above and send me an email, leave a comment of what you'd like revised and your email address, and I'd be glad to make the "birthday card" revisions for you and email it as an attachment to you for your use.
Baraka Bashad (May the Blessings Be)
