birthday boy

"almost all the positive emotion that any of you are likely to experience in your life will NOT BE as a consequence of attaining things. It will be a consequence of seeing that things are working as you proceed towards a goal you value. ....  most of your positive emotion is goal pursuit emotion” . (Quote from Psychology Professor (Jordan Peterson)’s You Tube talk giving advice on Depression https://youtu.be/6c9Uu5eILZ8  2min14sec-3min)

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Da birthday boy be blessed, dis birth day date!
And may all things dat's best, be coming ON.
For positive emotion comes your way
to be a taste of motion’s marathon.

A foretaste of development to come

for foetuses that dwell in womb still, yet,

some hope of birth and new life “though the sun”

and trav-ell-ing in-to it then begets

what we call happiness, that we wish you.

May your aim not be less, but more above

the place you soon will get, achieve or do.

So keep your aim just yet, still bigger. Love

is never “done”, but grows more as you use

creative power that shows up love’s prowess.

So this should save you from being confused

and help you come to prominence in tests.

And lessONs learned for moreONs like myself:

to check what I adore or focus on,

to follow who leads ON t’wards love and health

in truth, relating from a loving song.

And though your fam’ly looks like just the two

of you, this birthday (chooks and dogs to boot),

we know a Holley’s hidden who will do

a whole lot more unbidden to help shoot

you through your heart and teach you to love well

and that will bring you each right to the end

of all your own resources, help you smell

the place where love is sourced, that’s your true friend.

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..all the people had been ... listened to the words of the Law.  Nehemiah said, ‘... the joy of the Lord is your strength.’ Then all the people went away to (obey &) and to celebrate with great joy, because they now understood the words that had been made known to them.   And their joy was very great. Neh. 8:9‭-‬10‭, ‬12‭, ‬17 NIVUK

I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the truth. 3 John 1:4 NIVUK