On Wednesday I turned 40. My wife and family made sure I had a wonderful day and I received many great cards and presents.
Each year I enter a new decade I think it's a good time to reflect and take stock of where I am and where I'm going.
So what were my 30s like? It was a decade of great change for me and as the decade progressed from 2002 to 2012 it was a period during which I learnt the lesson that those we love really are the most important thing in life. The decade was one of people leaving my life as they died and other people coming into my life through marriage and parenthood.
In 2002 I lost my grandmother who had lived with us my whole life and right at the beginning of 2011 I lost my dad and I still miss him so much. These losses left two great holes in my circle of the five or six people that everyone keeps closest to them.
But then in 2009 I married Laura, who is my wife, my best friend and my soul mate all wrapped up in one amazing lady. Sharing everything in married life has made me twice the person I could ever have been on my own without her.
Just six months ago our son Jonathan was born and what a wonderful privilege it is to see a life develop from its very beginning and see a person not just a baby begin to take shape. What a great responsibility it also is to know that I will play an important part in how this little person grows up and the kind of man he will one day be.
As I turn 40 I am completely contented with my life and immensely grateful to the Lord for all the blessings he has given me.
As I look forward, I gulp with astonishment that in only 10 years I will be 50!! That can't be surely - it only feels like I was at university a couple of years ago. But I also look forward to having a great decade ahead and to sharing it all with my family and my friends. You all mean more to me than I could ever say in words.
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