Another blueberry bagel…

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A Jewish from a video screenshot. Beautiful lady.

Another blueberry bagel this morning as the day begins here in Charlotte, North Carolina.   

I made a phone call to India to bless my 46-year old friend Yeshudas for this birthday today. Along with his pretty wife Pritima, we continue our daily messages and weekly calls first began in 2019 when I met him at his church in Konta, India, southeast of the 17 million populated city of Hyderabad. Together they have two boys, 12 year old Daniel and 6 year old Joseph.

(Phone screenshot of Yeshudas and Pritima July 15, 2026)

Yeshudas has been trying to finish the house next door so they can move in from the one-room at the back of their church. So far the project has taken almost 10 years, since I last saw it. Funds are scarce.

Someday we will meet again. These long distance friendships are good, but being in person with one another is always better!

Be blessed, 

Steve Martin

Birth Day - message by Steve Martin

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Birth Day

When new life comes into the world parents, grandparents, possibly siblings who may have come before…celebrate.

The Lord has given birth through a mother with another of His creations. Unique. Never before. Special addition to the family and beyond. Birth days, annually and the commemorations following, are a time of rejoicing and showing appreciation for life.

Our calendars, whether on the mobile or still hanging in a noted place, help keep track of these annual events so we can again give thanks for the one who blesses us with their life.

When I see a birthday notice pop up from good friends elsewhere, blessing another friend, it reminds me of how special each of us really are. Even as no two snowflakes are the same, nor are each of us, having separate DNA from the others.

Our God is an amazing God. Continually creating with new life and new additions to families.

The God Who Makes Us Alive with His Own Life

“God’s Message, the God who created the cosmos, stretched out the skies, laid out the earth and all that grows from it, Who breathes life into earth’s people, makes them alive with his own life: “I am God. I have called you to live right and well. I have taken responsibility for you, kept you safe. I have set you among my people to bind them to me, and provided you as a lighthouse to the nations, to make a start at bringing people into the open, into light: opening blind eyes, releasing prisoners from dungeons, emptying the dark prisons. I am God. That’s my name…” Isaiah 42:5-8, The Message

When family or friends have birthdays, be sure to celebrate their life and treat them special. Because we each are.

Ahava and shalom,

Steve Martin

Message #17, in the year of our Lord March 28, 2026

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