{"id":1197,"date":"2016-09-12T11:03:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-12T16:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/the-last-wordand-many-more\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T10:07:20","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T16:07:20","slug":"the-last-wordand-many-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/?p=1197","title":{"rendered":"The Last Word….And Many More"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Are you one of those who has to have the last word? If so, then you, at the conclusion of singing “Happy Birthday” to someone, added the big finish\u2026.\u201dand many more!!” I\u2019ve come to find those words reassuring, so I always sing \u201cand many more\u201d under my breath in hopes that my quiet wish might help to safeguard the birthday boy or girl\u2019s longevity. I know it\u2019s not a sure fire guarantee because life has taught me that \u201cmany more\u201d is something we can never be sure of. So, each and every birthday we have with our loved ones is a gift. I realized this when my sweetheart received the diagnosis that changed his \u201cmany mores\u201d to \u201cone more.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cNo more\u201d is a sad thought, and I suspect if you\u2019re reading this, you understand what I mean. Even though their passing means our loved ones never grow a year older, however, to those of us who are still here on this side of heaven, their birthday continues to happen year after year. Though they\u2019re gone, their birthday still belongs to them; and to us, there\u2019s no such thing as \u201cno more\u201d. We\u2019re still here on this earth to REMEMBER there will be \u201cmany mores\u201d. I\u2019m here to tell you \u2013 significant days like birthdays, anniversaries and other special celebrations means we still love our loved ones despite their absence. That\u2019s one of the things I love about Facebook and seeing when people post about their loved ones \u2013 years past their \u201cgoing home\u201d date. They are fondly remembering.<\/p>\n

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So all of that was to give justification for celebrating the one man, the one love of my life once again \u2013 on this, his birthday. Our family celebrates each other\u2019s birthdays by pulling out the \u201cSpecial Plate\u201d and telling the honoree what they mean to us. I\u2019m looking up to heaven and singing “Happy Birthday….and many more” to my Sweetheart today! I’ll let you listen in as I say to him:<\/p>\n

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\u201cMy Sweetheart, you are so loved, honored, respected, and admired by me and all those who know you. I\u2019m celebrating you and the mark you made on so many lives, the least of whom is ME! I am more today than I could have ever dreamed possible because of you…..your relentless urging, pushing, prodding, and encouraging me to be all I could be. You have always made me feel beautiful — especially when I didn’t feel it. When I didn’t believe in myself, you believed in me! I am so thankful for the amazing husband, father, and grandfather that you were. You always gave yourself so freely to so many. I will never forget the precious, caring and giving way you treated others. You not only opened the door to them, but you fed them and clothed them and tolerated them and gave them truly the Father’s love. You really were a “life enhancer” and a beautiful example, on earth, of Christ’s love. There’s not enough room here to tell you how much you meant to me……but one thing’s for sure…….you received your ultimate reward by getting to go on the fast track to heaven. My greatest determination is to be there with you someday and to get to have the ultimate in birthday bashes there! And, to all my FB friends and family — YOU ARE ALL INVITED!!!<\/p>\n

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Oh, and by the way, maybe it’s time you and your family have special plate days, too. For those here on this side of heaven. It is sure a confidence builder to those we love! And, maybe it’s time to get out the special plate for your loved ones in heaven and reminisce and celebrate how they made in difference in your life. It will keep their memory alive, and bring gratitude back to those who helped make you who you are today!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Are you one of those who has to have the last word? If so, then you, at the conclusion of singing “Happy Birthday” to someone, added the big finish\u2026.\u201dand many more!!” I\u2019ve come to find those words reassuring, so I always sing \u201cand many more\u201d under my breath in hopes that my quiet wish might…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1598,156,838,674,478,7446,3838,1611],"class_list":["post-1197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-and-many-more","tag-birthday","tag-celebration","tag-happy-birthday","tag-loved-ones","tag-no-more","tag-remember","tag-the-last-word"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1197"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5648,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1197\/revisions\/5648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}