'It's a cravat, child, and a beautiful one, as you say. It's a present from the White King and Queen. There now!'
'Is it really?' said Alice, quite pleased to find that she had chosen a good subject after all.
'They gave it me,' Humpty Dumpty continued thoughtfully as he crossed one knee over the other and clasped his hands round it, 'they gave it me — for an un-birthday present.'
'I beg your pardon?' Alice said with a puzzled air.
'I'm not offended,' said Humpty Dumpty.
'I mean, what is an un-birthday present?'
'A present given when it isn't your birthday, of course.'
Alice considered a little. 'I like birthday presents best,' she said at last.
Alice in Wonderland
“The first fact about the celebration of a birthday is that it is a way of affirming defiantly, and even flamboyantly, that it is a good thing to be alive.” G. K. Chesterton, Our Birthday. [ http://books.google.com/books?id=xqYiR3WO7RAC&pg=PA166&lpg=PA166&dq=G.+K.+Chesterton+%22Our+Birthday%22&source=bl&ots=zbgRduxpYp&sig=7ssoBniS45CoL-i7pYV9XbS134Y&hl=en&sa=X&ei=nAciT_PaFMyltwfMyoWiCw&ved=0CCgQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q&f=false ]
This essay addressing philosophical differences with Bernard Shaw, Bertrand Russell and H. G. Wells, among others, is an affirmation of life and an acknowledgement of our dependence on God.
Acts 17: 25- 28 - NIV
And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything, because he himself gives all men life and breath and everything else. From one man he made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he determined the times set for them and the exact places where they should live. God did this so that men would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us. ‘For in him we live and move and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are his offspring.’
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