Surrendering My Inflated Expectations for the Best Balloon Filled Birthday
Have you planned something that didn’t live up to your expectations? Part of surrender for me has been a sloooooow, sometimes painful, opening of my hands to let my expectations be less important than God’s outcomes. Case in point: Thomas our son on the autism spectrum’s birthday. I try to make birthdays special for my family. It might be as simple as their favorite meal prepared for dinner or as major as covering the bathroom mirror with post it notes that say, “Happy Birthd