Birthday Wishes

Happy birthday, Dad. May the Lord bless your year with strength, peace, and the deep joy of seeing your love come back to you. We thank God for you, today and every day.

Happy birthday, sis. The older I get, the more I realize that everything I know about surviving difficult people I learned from you. You were the training.

Happy birthday! Wishing you a wonderful day and a year ahead full of good news, on every front.

Fifty looks beautiful on you, Auntie. Five decades of being unmistakably yourself , generous, funny, brave, the heart of every room. May this year hand back even a fraction of what you give the rest of us. Happy 50th. We love you.

Twenty-one, bro. The world handed you the keys this morning , go drive carefully where it counts and recklessly where it matters. Happy 21st.

Happy birthday, my boy. Take up space in this world. Be loud where it counts. Be soft where it matters. Be honest with yourself when it's hard, and kind to yourself when it's harder. Whatever the world tries to teach you about your worth, remember the truth we started teaching you the day you arrived: you are already, fully, exactly enough. We're behind you, always. Happy birthday, son.

Happy birthday, sweet girl. May this year be loud where it counts, soft where it matters, and full of all the good things you deserve.

Happy birthday, Grandpa. The world is louder than it used to be. You showed us the kind of quiet that's stronger than any of it. Thank you.

Twenty-one, daughter. You are now officially old enough to do most things I've spent years asking you to wait for, and all I can say is: I hope you have the patience I didn't have at your age, and the confidence I wish I'd had. Use both. Come home for dinner sometimes. Happy 21st.

Forty looks unfairly good on you, sis. May this decade hand you back every brave, generous thing you've poured into the rest of us.