Day 45

So today is going to be a little unconventional. Some of you might know that today is my birthday. I have been blessed by God to be able to wake up everyday for the last 19 years. Every breath I have taken since I was in my mother's womb has been a gift from God and I am truly thankful for everything he has given me. I owe everything I am today to God and the people that he has put into my life. I would have never made it this far without them and without him. I want to start of by thanking my parents for taking me to church every Sunday and doing their job as godly parents. Though I did not always follow what I was taught, the good morals that they taught me have stuck with me and I am doing my best to follow everything. To my brothers (Dwight, Peter, and Jonathan) I love you guys so much and you have made the biggest impact on my life (other than God). I look up to you guys and no matter what you guys do I am able to learn from your success and your failure and I hope that from here on out, I am able to teach you just as you have taught me and I will be able to keep learning from you. I am going to be able to pass on things to your kids and the stuff you have taught me will assist in that. Thank you for sticking with me even when I was annoying and always pestered you because even though I knew you were upset with me, you do not know how good it felt just to be able to spend time with you guys. Thanks again. To my sisters (Michelle, Kim, and Melissa) I love you girls as well and do not know what I would do without you. All of you have impacted my life in some way and I have been able to learn how to treat girls because of the things you have taught me and the examples you have set before me. I cannot thank you girls and guys enough for all the times you have taken me places or bought things for me because I know that I never deserved everything that I received but you still loved me and family can make or break someone's life.  My parents also have been able to provide me with stuff and I am so grateful for that, I do not know how blessed I have been through them as a result of God blessing me through blessing them.  Thank you to all of you. Too my sister's-in-law, Holly and Erin, I have known Holly for almost 11 years now and you have also been a blessing to me even though it may not seem like it, you were the first one I had to figure out how to act around because you have not always been around me and I was able to learn how to treat a member of the family that had not always been there and you and Dwight have given me so much, so I want to say thank you. Erin, I know we have had some differences but I know that you can be a part of this family and though it did not seem like it at first, we can accept people for who they are and we hope that you will continue to contribute to our family and be a blessing unto us and we shall be able to bless you. To my nieces and nephew, we have tons of time to learn and teach each other and I cannot wait to spend time with you guys in the future, I pray for you every night and I know that you are all going to grow up and be special kids. I pray for all my family every night and I am thankful and blessed to have all of you as a part of my life. 

I have been thinking today because I bought the new "Narnia" movie yesterday"Prince Caspian" and I thought of how cool it would be to live in a place like Narnia. Then I thought about it and we live in our own Narnia everyday. We have support from our family (The Pevensies) and Christians around us (Fellow Narnian's). There is a good vs. evil struggle everyday on earth and we fight the battle literally to the death. We have God (Aslan) who if we look for long enough, we will see him and he will guide us and help us win our struggle. All we have to do is step into this new world and we will see everything that is going on and what God has planned. When something good happens and the joy of it fades, we wonder if we will ever get back to that point and as the professor says at the end of the first movie, "I suppose so, but it will probably happen when you least expect it." If we live life everyday and just do our work for God, our blessings will come naturally and things will work themselves out and we will not have to stress. God has blessed us by putting us here and giving us the positions we are in right now to change the world and he is waiting for us to answer the call. We can be deceived by Satan (The White Witch) but as long as we use our support groups and do not wander off on our own, we are able to do more than we could ever imagine and we can literally step into "Narnia." It is time to make the dream world a reality and get back to the way things were when God was the focus of life. 

I hope you all have a great night and I am excited to see what this next year holds. I also want to thank my friends and all my other relatives for getting me to where I am today, but to thank them all would take hours. I want you to know that you ARE greatly appreciated and if you really want me to thank you, ask me what you have done for me and I will tell you exactly what it is you have done.

God bless,

Joseph Robinson