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“You say it’s your birthday. It’s my birthday too. Yeah, they say it’s your birthday; we’re gonna have a good time, I’m glad it’s your birthday! Happy Birthday to you!” –The Beatles, 1968

“Happy Birthday” is a greeting we look forward to, validation God had given us another year, a wish for the future, and the privilege to grow older, something many have not had.

Keeping track of time is not a purely human thing. All of nature is aware of the passing of a year: geese migrate, bears hibernate and flowers bloom.

Stonehenge and the Mayan calendar tell us that the celebration of the passage of tim...