Tuesday, May 8: Thanks very much for the well wishes, everyone! I appreciate the comments, e-mails, and gifts. It’s easy to look at a birthday as a “new beginning,” especially a “milestone” like 40, but I’m getting my second wind. My life has changed significantly in the last 10 years, and I hope the next ten will be even better. What next, God?
Thanks, again!
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Today I’m 40! Whoa…
I’m thinking only happy thoughts today. That means NO politics. No news. No surfing. Just hanging out with family and friends, celebrating my 40th year on the planet. It will be a happy day.
My before-I-turn-40-goal from last year was to have a book deal by now. You know, I’d probably have one if I weren’t such a procrastinator and bad prioritizer. I’m focused on maintaining and acquiring new consulting work (must come first – bills, bills, bills!), keeping up with this blog, and trying to crank out columns. There are ready, willing, and able folks waiting for me to put pen to paper and send a proposal.
To make it so, I’ll have to let something go. Temporarily. Or else give up sleep. Or my offline life.
Wish me luck!
Happy birthday to me! And thanks for reading LBC. And the other blog. 
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Happy Birthday from a lurker!
Happpy Birthday LaShawn!!!!!
Enjoy YOUR DAY.
elgerdobo
Happy Birthday to YOU!!
40?? Wow, I can’t even remember 40…
Sometimes I can’t remember yesterday too…
Oh well, HAPPY BIRTHDAY!! Your time is coming…
Many happy returns of the day and may God give you many blessings!
Happy birthday – you’re only getting better!
I hope God blesses you in the coming year.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY LA SHAWN!!
Please enjoy this special milestone. It is indeed a joyous time in you life!
You will indeed have a book deal.
Ask and ye shall receive.
More info to back this up will follow…
GOD SPEED,
~ Tate ~
Happy Birthday, La Shawn! I turn 30 later this month and I confess I just get more excited about life every year. I think about what God has done in my life in the last ten years and I am amazed. I can’t wait to see what blessings He has in store for me in the next ten.
Here’s to you, La Shawn, happy birthday! May you know the excitement in life that only a child of God knows!
Happy birthday, La Shawn! Long life and much happiness to you…and I’m already looking forward to seeing you in person when your book tour comes through Denver.
Happy Birthday, and best wishes in all your endeavors.
Sometimes the time left can seem short, and we are pressed. But also consider, that each day we age brings us closer to the house of God, where he stands with door open, arms outstretched saying, “Hey, bout time you arrived.”
So we can take joy in the now, but also, delight in the distance of journey and know that a true home awaits. The billions who have walked before watch, and wait, laughing with excitement at our progress.
“Would you like to see her, and read her writing?” says Jesus, perhaps, to someone you love who is there with him, and they smile, and nod, reading over your shoulder for a while, before the veil is drawn and they join the others for dinner with God.
We are never alone.
Stay busy, and keep love in your heart.
Happy birthday!
When they say “40 is the new 30″ they aren’t kidding. You look mah-velous! Happy birthday, LaShawn!
Happy Birthday La Shawn!! And many more!
Happy Birthday La Shawn and many many more.
Your book and tour will be a success.
Happy Birthday and Greetings from a brand new subscriber from the International Green Zone in Baghdad!
Happy Birthday Lashawn! I think all of us here are looking forward to the book deal! Eat some cake for me. God bless.
Happy Birthday, La Shawn. Emphasis on the happy, because you’ve earned it with your successes and with your bright prospects for the future.
Happy Birthday
what did you decide to give yourself for your birthday? A Mac or a Windows laptop?
May you experience the palpable presence of the living Christ as you mark another year toward the moment when you will behold him face to face, in a place where years are no longer marked.
Happy Birthday! Today’s my birthday, too, though I’m only turning 30. Have a wonderful day, and may God bless you in the coming year.
Happy birthday from one of your biggest admirers in the midwest. People like you give me hope for the future of our country. ENJOY!!!
I remember when my dad turned 40 and I thought that was soooooooooooo old! And now I think, “Oh, to be 40 again.” It’s all in your perspective. Many happys and a long, long life to you, LaShawn!
Happy Birthday La Shawn!
La Shawn,
Happy Birthday! Forty, and still the best looking blogger on the web
Happy Birthday, La Shawn!!
Ditto what Montie said. You make 40 beautiful and exciting. Enjoy your day, and I’m looking forward to celebrating all the exciting things to come in your life in the near future!!
Happy birthday, La Shawn. And thanks for one of the best blogs on the web.
Happy birthday … you are gorgeous! 40 is definitely the new 20. Well, except for the emotional maturity part.
What?
You look beautiful and happy. Have a GREAT day.
Happy, happy birthday! Your picture is lovely. Don’t feel badly that some of your goals didn’t get in under the wire…40 is not the end of the world! Life just gets better and clearer!
Hope to see news of a book deal soon!
Happy Birthday! Persevere you will write some books that are great!
Happy Birthday to you LaShawn! You are a wonderful and amazing lady. Thank God for you! I pray that you will have a blessed 40th and many more B-days to come!
God bless Kindred Spirit!
Happy Birthday! Forty is just full bloom!
Happy Birthday LaShawn! We know age doesn’t mean anything since we’re gonna live forever. Somewhere.
God Bless you.
Happy B Day. You are truly an inspiration.
Happy Birthday to YOU!!!!
Enjoy YOUR day!!!!
Happy 40th!! You are the BEST!
Happy Birthday! You make 40 look marvelous!
Happy Birthday and God Bless…you youngster!
Have a great one, La Shawn.
Happy Birthday, La Shawn! Grace and peace to you always.
Happy Birthday!
I can remember turning 40 …
I am thankful for what you do. Met you at the first GodBlogCon and was impressed with how “real” you were. May God continue to bless you and your ministries, including this Blog.
Happy Birthday La Shawn!!! This year you’ll get your book deal!! Enjoy your day
dd
May you enjoy a BLESSED Birthday!
–and don’t sweat the book timeline, just keep plugging away at it and it will come to be.
Happy Happy birthday! Maybe this year will be the year you get your book deal. ENJOY THE DAY!
Happy Birthday, LaShawn!! Forty sounds so young! I promise to buy your book.
Happy Birthday, LaShawn!
Happy Birthday La Shawn!
Happy Birthday LaShawn! I hope you have a wonderful, peaceful day. You deserve it.
Hmmmm.
Congrats!!
You know when I was 15 years old it seemed like it was taking an eternity to reach 18. And that was only 3 years. But now I look back through life from the exalted vantage point of 43 and I can’t for the life of me remember what the heck I did for the last 20 years. It seems like only yesterday I was 23 and hanging out with my friends.
Now an eye-blink later and they’ve all married, got kids and mortgages. I’ve progressed in my career and done fairly well.
But how did I get here? I can’t be this old. I was 23 only yesterday!
Isn’t it strange?
Happy Birthday, LaShawn! I’ll leave you with a Jewish blessing: “May you live to be 120,” or the more playful “May you live to 100 like 20.” (You choose.)
Thanks for your clear and articulate words. Many happy days ahead…odat.
Happy Birthday!
I hope you have a blessed birthday and coming year, full of His grace. You are a blessing to us!
Happy Birthday, La Shawn!
It’s the beginning of the best years of your life.
Happy Birthday!!
Don’t worry about not busting out a book before today….I swore that I’d be out of school before I turned 40; having that stroke last year put me a year behind graduation and even though I’ll be turning 40 in October, I still have another year to go until I get my BSEE.
Warmest wishes for a happy and blessed 40th!
Happy Birthday !!!
La Shawn,
I just turned 50 a few days ago. Must be Birthday Season.
Have a wonderful birthday!
Happy Birthday La Shawn, May 5th is a great day to be born, celebrating my 45th today, and like you only getting better.
Welcome to the 40-something club.
Lashawn;
Your smile made me smile….
Welcome to the club. Life starts here, trust me!
Hope you had a wonderful day. Happy Birthday, and don’t let anyone take away your happiness.
Happy Birthday
Happy birthday, La Shawn….and many more!!
Happy B-day LaShawn,
We are both 40 today although you don’t look it! I sent you one of your Amazon wish list items just cause your writing is such a tremendous blessing to me. Many, many more (Birthday’s that is…)
Happy Birthday Lashawn!!
Enjoy this 40th birthday, because they really go fast from now on. I am looking at 56 in 2 months, and my 40th birthday does not seem like it was that long ago.
Get that book deal. I want to be one of the first to read your book.
God Bless you.
May God richly bless you on this milestone! I’ll look forward to your book as well as your blogs.Many happy returns to a most beautiful lady.
Happy Birthday to a beautiful and intelligent Sista!
Happy Birthday from another lurker!
Know that the information you share in this new medium is greatly appreciated by those of us that frequent your blog.
The “control of information” is a thing of the past because of people like La Shawn Barber.
Be proud on this 40th Birthday! … Because you should be.
Happy Birthday, La Shawn! You’re beautiful!
Happy Birthday!!!
I would have wrote this yesterday but I was celebrating my birthday as well! Turned the big 43, congrats and may God grant you many more.
Your Birthday Brother
Herkeng
Happy Birthday La Shawn! Hope you have a wonderful, wonderful day and enjoy those 40s!
a fiftysomething
Happy Birthday, LaShawn!
Hope you had a very Happy Birthday. May you have many, many happy and healthy celebrations in the future.
Go girl!!! And many, many more!! I’ll be reading and looking for the book.
Congratulations.
It’s the 38th anniversary of your 2nd birthday
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Jesus knew you from your start and also knew you’d find him. You’ve got so much to celebrate!
La Shawn,
Happy birthday!
Happy 40th!!!
Happy Birthday from endangered species!!!!
You look great by the way I will be leaving Korea 13 June.
Happy Birthday, La Shawn
Happy Birthday, La Shawn! God bless…
Dutch
Happy Birthday LaShawn! You surely don’t look 40. Keep up the great work!
Happy Birthday LaShawn! May God continue to bless you.
Happy Birthday & thanks for keeping your corner so interesting!
Happy Birthday Some days are more special than others…just remember that each day is a gift from God; that’s why we call it the present.:-)
Happy Birthday, La Shawn! I can’t remember how I found your blog, but I am glad that I found it. Best wishes!
Happy Birthday, La Shawn!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU…HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU…HAPPY BIRTHDAY, LA SHAAWWWNNNN…HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOOUUUUU! I hope turning 40 is as empowering to you as it has been for me. Wishing you many more, chica.
Happy birthday! I just had my 53rd.
May many blessings await you.
Happy Birthday LaShawn
Happy Birthday, La Shawn!
Happy Birthday, La Shawn-you’re a YOUNG 40!
Happy, Happy Birthday!
Happy Birthday! If it makes you feel better, remember that I will always be six years older.
Happy B-Day LBC.
May you have a happy birthday. And, may you live so long that you look back on this one and realize how young you were way back then.
Woody
Happy Birthday, dear Lady! I’m facing my 60th this year. They tell me “60″ is the “new 40″. Why doesn’t that make me feel 40 again?
Sigh…:-(
Drop the other blog and write the book already!!
(Just Kidding…)
Best Wishes To You On Your 40th birthday!!
^What they said.
Thanks for writing such a great blog, and have a blessed and happy year!!!
Happy Birthday! I have the same before 40 goal, but I have quite a few less people who know who I am, making book proposals a tad more difficult. We’ll see. There is so much junk on the market, it makes rejections tres frustrating!
I’m late coming to this, LaShawn, but I wish you all God’s blessings and I hope you had a very good birthday. May the Lord keep you in His loving care and enrich your life with all good things. “I thank my God upon every remembrance of thee…” Happy Belated Birthday! (40’s nuthin’, just wait ’til you reach 50–!!)
Happy Birthday! I totally appreciate you being there!
Happy Birthday Lashawn! Who knew that one of my favorite bloggers had the same birthday as me! I turn 31 today! God bless!
Pete
You look about 27 years old so I wouldn’t get too tied up in knots about turning 40! I’m turning 65 in July and it isn’t bothering me all that much, other than a certain level of irritation at a few achey joints and such.
In any event, belatedly, HAPPY BIRTHDAY lovely lady and thank you for informing me, amusing me, and elevating my thought processes in the years since I discovered your site! You are remarkable and a gift to those of us who are fortunate enough to visit with you daily.
Happy 40th!!! My mom, who loves your column, downright squealed with delight when she learned you and she have the same birthday!
My cat Sam turned 6 on May 5th! He looks great as well!
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