{"id":2357,"date":"2015-05-03T08:46:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-03T12:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.honeyishrunkthegrief.com\/blog\/?p=2357"},"modified":"2015-06-11T12:06:30","modified_gmt":"2015-06-11T16:06:30","slug":"heavenly-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.honeyishrunkthegrief.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/03\/heavenly-birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"Heavenly Birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(from my 5\/3\/14 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/HoneyIShrunkTheGrief\/photos\/pb.359976660716729.-2207520000.1430599194.\/656800951034297\/?type=3&amp;permPage=1\" target=\"_blank\">HoneyIShrunkTheGrief.com Facebook post<\/a>\u00a0&#8230;revisited and posted here exactly one year later, in honor of today being Julie&#8217;s 39th birthday.\u00a0 Love you, Julie!\u00a0 Happy Birthday!)<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.honeyishrunkthegrief.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/histg_blog_post_birthday_pic_may2015.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2358\" alt=\"birthday_pic_may2015\" src=\"http:\/\/www.honeyishrunkthegrief.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/histg_blog_post_birthday_pic_may2015.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.honeyishrunkthegrief.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/histg_blog_post_birthday_pic_may2015.jpg 720w, https:\/\/www.honeyishrunkthegrief.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/histg_blog_post_birthday_pic_may2015-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.honeyishrunkthegrief.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/histg_blog_post_birthday_pic_may2015-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div id=\"id_554536a6ef4878885381252\">I wonder how they celebrate birthdays in heaven? \u00a0I bet it&#8217;s quite an event! \u00a0Julie turns 38 today, and I can&#8217;t help but wonder what she&#8217;s doing.\u00a0 Does God lead everyone in a great big singing of &#8220;Happy Birthday&#8221;?\u00a0 I wonder what that sounds like? \u00a0I bet it&#8217;s like hearing a child&#8217;s laughter, the ocean, crickets chirping, a cat purring, a drum line, a beating heart, a deep cleansing breath, wind rustling through the trees, <a title=\"Tesla's &quot;Love Song&quot; on YouTube\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=l2q_-xN2N54\" target=\"_blank\">Tesla&#8217;s &#8220;Love Song&#8221;(!)<\/a> &#8230;and every other earthly majestic sound &#8212; all rolled into one. \u00a0I hope God presents Julie with a song that is better than any gift imaginable.\u00a0 One that makes her feel significant, and as free as ever.\u00a0 So much of life seems to involve some sort of advancement towards freedom. \u00a0I hope her birthday gift is one that fills her with unimaginable freedom.\u00a0 And I hope God allows her to share it with you.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>How do you think they celebrate birthdays in heaven?<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>beautiful song&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Tesla - Love Song\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/l2q_-xN2N54?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>~ \u00a0 ~ \u00a0 ~ \u00a0 ~ \u00a0 ~ \u00a0 ~ \u00a0 ~<br \/>\nNow on Facebook!\u00a0<a title=\"click here for my HISTG.com FB page\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/HoneyIShrunkTheGrief\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/HoneyIShrunkTheGrief <\/a><br \/>\nNow on Twitter!\u00a0<a title=\"click here for my HISTG.com Twitter page\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EricVaiksnoras\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/EricVaiksnoras<\/a><br \/>\nCheck out my book!\u00a0<a title=\"my book \" href=\"http:\/\/www.honeyishrunkthegrief.com\/book\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.honeyishrunkthegrief.com\/book\/ <\/a><br \/>\nFeeling grateful? or feeling low?\u00a0<a title=\"HISTG Thank You Card blog post\" href=\"http:\/\/www.honeyishrunkthegrief.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/27\/sign-the-thank-you-card-today\/\">Sign the Thank You Card! \u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"click here to return to my home page\" href=\"http:\/\/www.honeyishrunkthegrief.com\/blog\/\">click here to return to home page<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(from my 5\/3\/14 HoneyIShrunkTheGrief.com Facebook post\u00a0&#8230;revisited and posted here exactly one year later, in honor of today being Julie&#8217;s 39th birthday.\u00a0 Love you, Julie!\u00a0 Happy Birthday!) I wonder how they celebrate birthdays in heaven? \u00a0I bet it&#8217;s quite an event! &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.honeyishrunkthegrief.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/03\/heavenly-birthday\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[45,119,192,129,193,267,85,109,183,277,185,13,54,14,293,44,21,184,253,130,290,287,136,131,12,20,11,57,25],"class_list":["post-2357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-love-will-find-a-way","tag-a-young-widower-discovers-love-will-find-a-way","tag-all-are-one","tag-celebrate-our-disabilities-and-heartbreaks-for-they-make-us-beautiful","tag-death","tag-defy","tag-different-can-be-good","tag-eric-vaiksnoras","tag-faith","tag-feeling-grateful-or-feeling-low-sign-the-thank-you-card","tag-finding-love-in-grief","tag-follow-on-twitter","tag-grief","tag-griever","tag-grieving","tag-heavenly-birthday","tag-honey-i-shrunk-the-grief","tag-hope","tag-like-on-facebook","tag-live-laugh-and-love","tag-loss","tag-love-heals","tag-love-lights-the-way","tag-loving-thoughts-and-actions-give-my-life-meaning","tag-mourn","tag-widow","tag-widowed","tag-widower","tag-www-honeyishrunkthegrief-com","tag-young-widower"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honeyishrunkthegrief.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honeyishrunkthegrief.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honeyishrunkthegrief.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honeyishrunkthegrief.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honeyishrunkthegrief.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2357"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.honeyishrunkthegrief.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2396,"href":"https:\/\/www.honeyishrunkthegrief.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2357\/revisions\/2396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honeyishrunkthegrief.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honeyishrunkthegrief.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honeyishrunkthegrief.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}