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b'READ: GENESIS 1:27; PSALM 139:13-18\\n\\n\\n\\nI\\u2019m one of those people who likes to make a big deal out of birthdays. Whenever it\\u2019s someone else\\u2019s birthday, I try to at least send a happy birthday text, or get a gift, or even throw a party. When it comes to my own birthday, I always try to have a fun day planned. I never understood why people would hide or brush off their birthdays. Your birthday is the day that God knew you would take your first breaths!\\n\\n\\n\\nGod watched over you as you grew in your mom\\u2019s womb. God knew what color eyes you would have, how tall you would be, and what your first word would be. Psalm 139 says that God knit us together. I love thinking about that image. I think of God hunched over, focused on pulling together the threads of your life to form all the different aspects of who you are.\\n\\n\\n\\nGod loved you before you were born, and He still loves the person you are today. His love for you is so great that He sent Jesus to sacrifice His life for you and become your Redeemer so you could be adopted into God\\u2019s family. And even though Jesus\\u2019s sacrifice and miraculous resurrection happened long before you were born, it was still a sacrifice meant for you.\\n\\n\\n\\nAnd that\\u2019s why I like to make a big deal out of birthdays. Because each person is so unique and there\\u2019s no one just like them. Each person is loved so deeply by God, and each life is worth being celebrated. \\u2022 Naomi Zylstra\\n\\n\\n\\n\\u2022 Do you like your birthday? Why or why not?\\n\\n\\n\\n\\u2022 What\\u2019s one thing you like about yourself? Consider taking a moment to imagine God creating this aspect of you carefully and purposefully, and thank Him for making you this way!\\n\\n\\n\\n\\u2022 What are some ways we can show honor and value to the people we come in contact with, whether it\\u2019s their birthday or not?\\n\\n\\n\\nFor you formed my inmost being. You knit me together in my mother\\u2019s womb. Psalm 139:13 (WEB)'