M other’ s H igh Calling H appy Birthday to you; only one will not do. Bom again means salvation! how many birthdays have you?” This is the time of the year when a birthday “ epidemic” hits this family and this song is sung with happy regularity. Mother be comes a little harassed as she works at baking cakes and planning differ ent ways to honor each child. Ardyth was four the 26th; Paul Kent eight the 29th; Sharon 10 the 3rd; Baby Mark “ brings up the rear” by being two on the 11th. Since ice cream and cake are a foregone con clusion for each birthday celebration, the other children in the family are thrilled by the quadruple dose. If anyone is in ignorance of the many birthdays around here within a two-week period, it is not the fault of the celebrants. If we tried to, the others in the family could never for get these important dates. For days prior to the event there are huddles as plans are made to either make or buy a little remembrance. After all, birthdays are important since they are peculiarly one’s own day, and this family makes much of all 11 of them. As Mother whipped up the third cake the other day she suddenly felt very weary, and decided this business of four separate celebrations, each on the heel of another, was becoming monotonous, at least from her view point. Special menus for the honored ones, a cake fancied up a bit, and that all important bit of remembrance keep her hopping. But every time the birthday song is lifted high on child ish voices, and she sees the joy on each little face, Mother’s heart nearly bursts with pride and gratitude. “They’re only children once,” she prays. “ Help me give them a blessed childhood. Not many people have a family this size. May I always ap preciate the high calling and priv ilege. I gave them physical birth, but only Thou canst give them spiritual birth. Use me to bring them into Thy family of redeemed ones.” “ Children are an heritage of the Lord” (Ps. 127:3). END.
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