Thanks to one and all for the lovely birthday wishes over the past week. It was a wonderful birthday, complete with a party with 53 attendees!! Amazing! Your notes, including many from converts, reverts and Tradverts (new noun, along with the new verb, “to Trad”), are truly edifying and inspiring. I can’t wait to see what Lap #50 around the determiner of weather 🌞 brings.

Here’s a perennial favorite, apropos of the occasion: Patsy Cline’s “Life’s Railway to Heaven.”

Life is like a mountain railroad
With an Engineer that’s brave
We must make the run successful
From the cradle to the grave

Watch the curves, the fills, and tunnels
Never falter, never fail
Keep your hand upon the throttle
And your eyes upon the rail

Blessed Savior, Thou wilt guide us
Till we reach that blissful shore
Where the angels wait to join us
In that great forevermore.