{"id":3245,"date":"2010-10-20T03:21:47","date_gmt":"2010-10-20T09:21:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.185.166.32\/~davidfoster\/?p=3245"},"modified":"2010-10-19T16:26:44","modified_gmt":"2010-10-19T22:26:44","slug":"my-birthday-is-my-check-up-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/my-birthday-is-my-check-up-day\/","title":{"rendered":"My Birthday is My Check-Up Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"This past Saturday was my birthday, and it was an amazing day; probably the best birthday I\u2019ve ever had.\u00a0 Not because I got a new Ferrari, or a trip to Tahiti, but because there were so many signs around that day that made me very grateful<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

I call my birthday my check-up day.\u00a0 It\u2019s the day I use to recalibrate my mission, vision, and goal statements.<\/strong> So here is what I checked up on.<\/p>\n

Check-up #1: Physical well-being<\/strong>.\u00a0 Saturday I ran a half-marathon with my wife Paula.\u00a0 This year we will run four half-marathons together.\u00a0 One of the reasons I do it is not because of the time. I could care less.\u00a0 I have to continually exercise and train for the events.\u00a0 It keeps me motivated.<\/p>\n

Who knows?\u00a0 I may have a heart attack tomorrow.\u00a0 But at least I know that whatever happens to me in the future, I am taking good care of my physical body as a steward before God, my Creator, the One to whom I\u2019m going to have to give an account.<\/p>\n

Check-up #2: My relationships.<\/strong> On my birthday I had Paula, my daughters, my son-in-law and my future son-in-law around me celebrating with cake, party, gifts, fun, and picture-taking.\u00a0 It made me realize that at my stage in life, if my family thought I was a jerk, and wanted my birthday to silently go on by, I\u2019d be screwed.\u00a0 It\u2019s a joy to have the people around you that you love.\u00a0 I\u2019m grateful. And when I do a check-up on my core relationships, they\u2019re strong, healthy, vibrant, and growing.<\/p>\n

Check-up #3: My fun-factor.<\/strong> I really do believe fun is important, not trivial like some other people believe. As a renegade for God, I have three creedal commitments: to live free <\/em>(I find my freedom in Christ), to have fun, and to change the world. <\/em>As a matter of fact, those are the kind of people who do change the world.\u00a0 Those who live free and have fun in their everyday life.<\/p>\n

So for fun, on Sunday morning I got up and attended The Gathering.\u00a0 I mean that.\u00a0 For fun.\u00a0 It\u2019s not something I have to go to, I get to go to<\/em>.\u00a0 It\u2019s fun to gather with other happy people.\u00a0 It\u2019s fun to gather with other people who are depressed, mournful, suffering loss, the broken, the beat-up, the betrayed, and the bruised.\u00a0 Because I know that the hope of Jesus Christ is the answer to every problem and to all their questions.\u00a0 I see God do great things every week without exception.<\/p>\n

Sunday afternoon, Paula and I hopped on our motorcycle, rode down to Columbia, Tennessee and participated in the Dirks Bentley Ride for Children along with three thousand other screaming Harley Motorcycles.\u00a0 How much fun is it to ride down one of the major roads in Nashville, Music City at 60 mph with a police escort?\u00a0 That\u2019s too much fun!<\/p>\n

Check-up #4: My connectedness.<\/strong> I was overwhelmed with the hundreds of well-wishes and birthday greetings.\u00a0 I\u2019ve never had that many in my life.\u00a0 It leads me to believe that my life is open, engaged, and doing everything I possibly can to change the world by helping people grow in their relationships with God, their families, and the world around them.<\/p>\n

Those are my check-ups on my birthday.\u00a0 If today were your birthday, and you had to check-up with each one of these, how would you feel, and what would you change?\u00a0 The good news is, you can change it today by simply making other choices, better choices, and smarter choices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This past Saturday was my birthday, and it was an amazing day; probably the best birthday I\u2019ve ever had.\u00a0 Not because I got a new Ferrari, or a trip to Tahiti, but because there were so many signs around that day that made me very grateful. I call my birthday my check-up day.\u00a0 It\u2019s the … Continue reading “My Birthday is My Check-Up Day”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"series":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3245"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3245"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=3245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}