Mile•stone

mile·stone:  A significant event or stage in the life, progress, development, of a person.

I will reach a milestone in life on January 12, 2012 as I celebrate my 50^th birthday. It is a milestone because it is a half century of living and because I have more life lived behind me, than I have life to live ahead of me.  It's just a fact that the odds are I will not live to be 100 years old--at least I hope not.  So, I thank God for this milestone I will soon reach and ask the Lord for strength and joy for the swiftly passing years I have left.  Let me Father spend them loving and being loved by family and friends.  Oh Lord, let them not be wasted, but used for your glory and my happiness.  

Psalm 90:10

¹⁰ The length of our days is seventy years—
   or eighty, if we have the strength;
yet their span is but trouble and sorrow,
   for they quickly pass, and we fly away.