happy happy birthday to you! I am oh so grateful for you - our friendship has been through quite a lot within just a year of knowing each other. but, even with our differences, we’ve adapted and worked through and overcome. oorah, sister ✨
I’ve written a lot more in the letter I sent to you (meaning I wrote you a little name poem thing, it’s pretty awesome lol) - but I think you deserve it publicly too. You are one of the most passionate, driven people I know - you stand with what you believe and you love the people around you with such fierceness that I really admire. you’re loyal, thoughtful, and you are a true born leader with a calling to lead and point people in the direction of the healing you’ve been finding through Jesus. someone who, I just know in my heart, God put into my life with such deliberate intention to teach me and help me grow.
I hope you know how much you are loved, how much you’re seen and appreciated. you deserve the world and more, and especially on your birthday, I hope you’ve felt some of that - at least, from halfway across the country! I’ve been thinking about you all day and hope that you were able to enjoy it.
sending my thoughts and prayers your way a little extra at the end of your birthday! I thank the heavens for you every day and hope that this next year, turning 30 will be the best year yet - that God will bless you with the direction and help that you are seeking!
here is a gif of your lumberjack man you love so much just for your birthday!
i knew you were sending me a more formal birthday thingy, but i wasn't prepared. i truly wasn't. my injury is sore and i'm really tired this morning and to be honest, i just had no motivation to rise out of bed and haul myself into work.
i'm glad i did though, because i got to see this (for some reason the Tumblr app isn't working on my phone quite right) because i haven't gotten notifications in-app for most of yesterday. yikes.
ANYWAY. thank you, friend. your words caught me off guard. and yes, while i agree our friendship has gone a lot of different directions even in a year (13 months! AHHH!) i think, in a way, it's good even if it's different. we know a little more, a little deeper, about one another and that's ok. we'll see how you feel about me in the coming year, ROFL. because we both know i am the Wolverine of this friendship, the one who has no idea what she's doing relationally.
i am very blessed by you. you challenge me in ways that i haven't been challenged in a long time, make me examine my heart and how i feel about people and allowing them to see me. you have, somehow or another, managed to pry a couple of my ribs back to find my heart. and while i've been reluctant to show it, you've been kind and forgiving and sweet. because that's who you are, the best adjective i know to describe the charming little shortstack over at the base of Utah mountains, sweet. that is a rare thing to be in this world, please do not lose it.
i miss you and can't wait to connect online again, play some Nintendo, watch some movies, and continue shenangigans. because while i'm a big girl now, i'm still very much little old me.
and since i'm pretty sure Valjean is the only hugh character you enjoy, he approves this message today
