Happy Birthday to me! I have reached a point in my life in which my God really does supply all that I need. Of course I have wants but nothing I will not eventually purchase for myself. Since, about, my 50th birthday I began trusting God, Abba Father, to bless me with a unique gift and He does! No, there is no Bible verse that says: God will give you a birthday gift but there is a verse that says: Ask and I will receive (Matthew 7:7). Every year there is that one thing that I did not ask for but I really love and appreciate, and I know it was God who motivated that person to give me that one thing. God is love.

Jeremiah 1:4-8 (KJV)
4 Then the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
5 Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.
6 Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! behold, I cannot speak: for I am a child.
7 But the LORD said unto me, Say not, I am a child: for thou shalt go to all that I shall send thee, and whatsoever I command thee thou shalt speak.
8 Be not afraid of their faces: for I am with thee to deliver thee, saith the LORD.

Many people I know talk about how their Internet advertisement reflects conversations they had or searches on the Internet that were done. I have noticed, for the past 12 months or more, advertisements on aging, how to not look older and how wearing a disposable diaper does not affect how you look sexy (SMH!). Is it because I was turning 65? Or is the Ai algorithms gone wild?
I am assuming Jesus will not come before February 23, my birthday, and I am still breathing because I am writing this 13 days ahead of this posting. Perhaps the Ai algorithms will read this post while it is in cue, and stop the stupid ads!
Note to Google, YouTube, Social Media cites and Ai: You do not know what I want to watch or buy – STOP. I am not ashamed of my age, my thinning hair, my body or my life in general so STOP! Stop changing my algorithms based on my skin pigment, my gender, my age, what I searched for or what I have purchased. Just leave me alone! But if you have to placed advertisements make them Marsha appropriate. I am a Christian, Bible believing, modest dressing with head-covering, politically conservative woman, seeing women in their underwear does not motivate me to purchase anything.

God know more than Ai! He knows me!
I believe we are promised 120 years (Genesis 6:3) thus I am definitely at the half-way mark. I pray I live a decades more and the odds are in my favor, longevity runs in my family. And I am not embarrassed by my thinning hair, lumps, chunks and wrinkles. I pray for my healing but I do not have plans for a hip replacement because my right him is painful, it doesn’t hurt all the time and I use a cane to help me walk. I am not 16 or 25 I am 65 with a life history that includes; lack of proper diet and lack of exercise. God put me here for a reason and I have yet to complete my purpose therefore I am going to keep moving forward.
I blogged, February 3 and part 2 on the 4th, My Declaration of Independence based on lessons I have learned, if I had payed attention to what my mother was telling me I would have learned those lessons sooner; mom knew and so did Abba Father, that I had to learn it this way. I learned many lessons an emotionally painful way but I learned them never the less. The greatest lesson I have learned: He will lead me through!
I have goals, dreams, ideas, I want to “Die empty”. That is a phrase I learned form Dr. Myles Munroe, he taught: there are many grave sights filled with unfulfilled dreams and goals (of course I a paraphrasing). I don’t want to be one of those people who do not complete my God given assignments. I don’t want to die rich I want to die empty, you cannot take money with you. I believe, all of God’s children have something to do while here on this earth.

Matthew 25:24-30 (KJV)
24 Then he which had received the one talent came and said, Lord, I knew thee that thou art an hard man, reaping where thou hast not sown, and gathering where thou hast not strawed:
25 And I was afraid, and went and hid thy talent in the earth: lo, there thou hast that is thine.
26 His lord answered and said unto him, Thou wicked and slothful servant, thou knewest that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I have not strawed:
27 Thou oughtest therefore to have put my money to the exchangers, and then at my coming I should have received mine own with usury.
28 Take therefore the talent from him, and give it unto him which hath ten talents.
29 For unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath.
30 And cast ye the unprofitable servant into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

As I look over my life I see the people the Holy Spirit has placed in my path to care for, they have graduated into eternity, knowing God through Jesus. But there is more!
At 65 my life is better than it was yesterday. I am so heavenly minded that I am no earthly good, this is a good thing! We are not suppose to be good to this world because we are not of this world, at least I am not.
Moving forward, my hair may or may not get thinner, my body may or may not get more lumps, bumps and wrinkles, God may deliver me from and heal my body of arthritis, I will do those things that please Him.

Matthew 6:31-34 (KJV)
31 Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?
32 (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.
33 But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
34 Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.

Written by Marsha L Floyd
Monday, February 10, 2025 6:14:39 AM
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