What is a birthday?

Birthday?

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What is a birthday?

A birthday is the anniversary of the day on which a person was born, typically treated as an occasion for celebration and the giving of gifts. It can also be described as the date on which someone is born or something is created.

How Should We Celebrate our Birthday?

It is good to be thankful to God for what you have in life. For the gift of life, and what you have accomplished. You need to open your eyes to the larger picture. If we are to appreciate our creator for the fruits of life, we must first appreciate the tree that bears the fruit: birth itself.

 

Birth is the beginning of every creature on earth. It is an opener to the chance of a lifetime, the chance to fulfill your unique mission on earth. So a birthday is a momentous occasion, to be commemorated just as a nation commemorates its birth or as an organization celebrates its founding. Still, a birthday is much more than an occasion to receive gifts. It is a chance to remember the day that a major event happened, to celebrate and give thanks to God, and to reflect upon how well we are fulfilling our calling on earth.

Do you know that time itself is like a spiral? Something special happens on your birthday each year: The same energy that God invested in you at birth is present once again. It is our obligation and duty to be receptive to that force. How do we do so? By committing to a life guided by God’s will, and by using the abilities and resources we were born with to perfect ourselves and society and to make the world a good and sacred home for God.

 

A birthday time is a day to celebrate birth itself, the joy of life. It is also an occasion to rethink your life: How great is the disparity between what I have accomplished, what I am about to accomplish, and what I can accomplish? Am I spending my time properly or am I involved in things that distract me from my higher calling? How can I strengthen the thread that connects my outer life and my inner life?

 

Birthdays can also teach us the concept of rebirth. To recall our birth is to recall a new life. No matter how things went last year, last month, last week, or yesterday we always have the capacity to try again, and again. Your birthday is a refresher, a chance for regeneration, another time to rethink—not just materially, but spiritually.

 

On your birthday celebration, gather with family and friends and study something meaningful together, do something worthy unto God and humanity.

 

There is no better way to celebrate a birthday than to commit a special act of goodness. It is easy enough to say you are thankful; it is far better to show it by doing a kind deed unto to human race, something that you did not do yesterday. Not because someone is forcing you. Not because someone suggests it. But simply because your inner goodness, your soul, your spirit, and your body want to express their thanks for being born and alive.

 

Such an act of kindness gives God great pleasure and happiness because He sees that the child in whom He invested, the particular child he wanted to be born on a particular day, is living up to its potential. And nothing, of course, gives a parent greater joy. This is the true experience of a birthday, the true beginning of a life of meaning.