Almost 56 years ago...

I always like to reflect on my birthday.
I've never been one for a big show, and when I am alone and pondering, I like to imagine that day, what might have been happening moments before, how excited my parents might have been even in the throws of labor... And what of my spirit?...anticipating mortality and all that awaited... beginning "My Turn on Earth"... I can imagine my hopeful spirit promising with all that I am, to be faithful in keeping my covenants, to love and serve and grow into the woman my Heavenly Father knows I can be... perhaps even a bit afraid... and then out I came, squalling and tiny and new and perfect, but for the long flat feet, and being kissed and held and loved by my sweet mum and dad and all my older siblings.... Now it is 56 years later and I again am pondering these things and on my life...