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Chapter 40
As you approach your 40th birthday, daily private tributes called Lights unlock, each one holding memories, love, faith, and the voices of people who know why you matter.
Daily Lights unlock in private
Contribute to Nat's StoryThis is the story of who you are, Nat, and why you matter.
As you approach your 40th birthday, daily private tributes called Lights unlock, each one holding memories, love, faith, and the voices of people who know why you matter.
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The purpose
To make sure you never question how deeply loved you are.
Chapter 40 is not a social network and not a public birthday page. It is a private place made for you, Nat: for your beauty, love, motherhood, marriage, friendships, faith, joy, and quiet influence.
Inside these lights are memories from people whose lives have been shaped, softened, strengthened, and brightened by you. Each Daily Light was made for you: with notes, memories, videos, gifts, reflections, and reminders of the love surrounding you.
Daily unlocks
One new Daily Light opens for you each morning.
This journey will open for you one light at a time until your 40th birthday. On June 4, all remaining birthday Lights unlock for you at once.
Featured lights
25 lightsThe Daily JourneyLights 01-25 open for you one morning at a time as June 4 approaches.+
01UnlockedMotherhood as a Masterpiece
The sacred art of loving children into who they are.
May 10 at 7:00 AM MDT
Motherhood as a Masterpiece
The sacred art of loving children into who they are.
Category: Motherhood
Unlock: May 10 at 7:00 AM MDT
Status: Unlocked for you
02UnlockedSunlight in the Room
The way you change the feeling of a place.
May 11 at 7:00 AM MDT
Sunlight in the Room
The way you change the feeling of a place.
Category: Joy
Unlock: May 11 at 7:00 AM MDT
Status: Unlocked for you
03UnlockedThe Love We Built
Marriage, memory, covenant, and the miracle of choosing again.
May 12 at 7:00 AM MDT
The Love We Built
Marriage, memory, covenant, and the miracle of choosing again.
Category: Marriage
Unlock: May 12 at 7:00 AM MDT
Status: Unlocked for you
04UnlockedFriendship and Influence
The people who are better because you are in their story.
May 13 at 7:00 AM MDT
Friendship and Influence
The people who are better because you are in their story.
Category: Friendship
Unlock: May 13 at 7:00 AM MDT
Status: Unlocked for you
05LockedFaith Like Warmth
Spiritual steadiness, quiet courage, and the peace you give away.
May 14 at 7:00 AM MDT
Faith Like Warmth
Spiritual steadiness, quiet courage, and the peace you give away.
Category: Faith
Unlock: May 14 at 7:00 AM MDT
Status: Waiting for its scheduled moment
06LockedThe Legacy Vault
A living archive for the family stories still unfolding.
May 15 at 7:00 AM MDT
The Legacy Vault
A living archive for the family stories still unfolding.
Category: Legacy
Unlock: May 15 at 7:00 AM MDT
Status: Waiting for its scheduled moment
07LockedYour Laugh in the House
The sound that makes ordinary days feel lighter.
May 16 at 7:00 AM MDT
Your Laugh in the House
The sound that makes ordinary days feel lighter.
Category: Joy
Unlock: May 16 at 7:00 AM MDT
Status: Waiting for its scheduled moment
08LockedSisterhood and Daughters
The women and girls shaped by your tenderness.
May 17 at 7:00 AM MDT
Sisterhood and Daughters
The women and girls shaped by your tenderness.
Category: Family
Unlock: May 17 at 7:00 AM MDT
Status: Waiting for its scheduled moment
09LockedThe Way You Welcome
How you make people feel wanted before they have to explain themselves.
May 18 at 7:00 AM MDT
The Way You Welcome
How you make people feel wanted before they have to explain themselves.
Category: Hospitality
Unlock: May 18 at 7:00 AM MDT
Status: Waiting for its scheduled moment
10LockedCourage Underneath the Softness
The quiet strength beneath your grace.
May 19 at 7:00 AM MDT
Courage Underneath the Softness
The quiet strength beneath your grace.
Category: Courage
Unlock: May 19 at 7:00 AM MDT
Status: Waiting for its scheduled moment
11LockedKitchen Table Grace
The sacredness of meals, talks, messes, and home.
May 20 at 7:00 AM MDT
Kitchen Table Grace
The sacredness of meals, talks, messes, and home.
Category: Home
Unlock: May 20 at 7:00 AM MDT
Status: Waiting for its scheduled moment
12LockedThe Friend Who Remembers
Names, details, birthdays, worries, hopes, and little things.
May 21 at 7:00 AM MDT
The Friend Who Remembers
Names, details, birthdays, worries, hopes, and little things.
Category: Friendship
Unlock: May 21 at 7:00 AM MDT
Status: Waiting for its scheduled moment
13LockedA Woman of Prayer
Quiet petitions, sacred hope, and love carried upward.
May 22 at 7:00 AM MDT
A Woman of Prayer
Quiet petitions, sacred hope, and love carried upward.
Category: Faith
Unlock: May 22 at 7:00 AM MDT
Status: Waiting for its scheduled moment
14LockedBeauty in the Ordinary
The way you notice, arrange, and elevate simple things.
May 23 at 7:00 AM MDT
Beauty in the Ordinary
The way you notice, arrange, and elevate simple things.
Category: Beauty
Unlock: May 23 at 7:00 AM MDT
Status: Waiting for its scheduled moment
15LockedThe Home You Make
Not just rooms, but belonging.
May 24 at 7:00 AM MDT
The Home You Make
Not just rooms, but belonging.
Category: Home
Unlock: May 24 at 7:00 AM MDT
Status: Waiting for its scheduled moment
16LockedThe Way Children Trust You
A softness children can run toward.
May 25 at 7:00 AM MDT
The Way Children Trust You
A softness children can run toward.
Category: Motherhood
Unlock: May 25 at 7:00 AM MDT
Status: Waiting for its scheduled moment
17LockedJoy That Stays
Not loud happiness, but resilient gladness.
May 26 at 7:00 AM MDT
Joy That Stays
Not loud happiness, but resilient gladness.
Category: Joy
Unlock: May 26 at 7:00 AM MDT
Status: Waiting for its scheduled moment
18LockedThe Stories People Keep
The memories others still carry because of you.
May 27 at 7:00 AM MDT
The Stories People Keep
The memories others still carry because of you.
Category: Influence
Unlock: May 27 at 7:00 AM MDT
Status: Waiting for its scheduled moment
19LockedNeighbor, Sister, Friend
The many names love has worn in your life.
May 28 at 7:00 AM MDT
Neighbor, Sister, Friend
The many names love has worn in your life.
Category: Relationships
Unlock: May 28 at 7:00 AM MDT
Status: Waiting for its scheduled moment
20LockedThe Music of Your Days
The rhythm, humor, motion, and tenderness around you.
May 29 at 7:00 AM MDT
The Music of Your Days
The rhythm, humor, motion, and tenderness around you.
Category: Joy
Unlock: May 29 at 7:00 AM MDT
Status: Waiting for its scheduled moment
21LockedWhen You Show Up
The ministry of presence.
May 30 at 7:00 AM MDT
When You Show Up
The ministry of presence.
Category: Presence
Unlock: May 30 at 7:00 AM MDT
Status: Waiting for its scheduled moment
22LockedYour Gentle Strength
Tenderness with a backbone.
May 31 at 7:00 AM MDT
Your Gentle Strength
Tenderness with a backbone.
Category: Strength
Unlock: May 31 at 7:00 AM MDT
Status: Waiting for its scheduled moment
23LockedThe Places You Have Brightened
Rooms, trips, neighborhoods, churches, and seasons made better.
June 1 at 7:00 AM MDT
The Places You Have Brightened
Rooms, trips, neighborhoods, churches, and seasons made better.
Category: Influence
Unlock: June 1 at 7:00 AM MDT
Status: Waiting for its scheduled moment
24LockedLove in the Details
The tiny things that become a lifetime of care.
June 2 at 7:00 AM MDT
Love in the Details
The tiny things that become a lifetime of care.
Category: Love
Unlock: June 2 at 7:00 AM MDT
Status: Waiting for its scheduled moment
25LockedThe Eve of Forty
A quiet threshold before the full celebration opens.
June 3 at 7:00 AM MDT
The Eve of Forty
A quiet threshold before the full celebration opens.
Category: Anticipation
Unlock: June 3 at 7:00 AM MDT
Status: Waiting for its scheduled moment
15 lightsThe Birthday RevealLights 26-40 unlock together for your 40th birthday.+
26LockedBirthday Light: Forty Years Loved
The birthday collection begins.
Your June 4 birthday reveal
Birthday Light: Forty Years Loved
The birthday collection begins.
Category: Birthday
Unlock: June 4 at 7:00 AM MDT
Status: Waiting for its scheduled moment
27LockedBirthday Light: The People Gather
A chorus of voices for your 40th chapter.
Your June 4 birthday reveal
Birthday Light: The People Gather
A chorus of voices for your 40th chapter.
Category: Birthday
Unlock: June 4 at 7:00 AM MDT
Status: Waiting for its scheduled moment
28LockedBirthday Light: The Family You Built
The home, children, and covenant at the center of your story.
Your June 4 birthday reveal
Birthday Light: The Family You Built
The home, children, and covenant at the center of your story.
Category: Birthday
Unlock: June 4 at 7:00 AM MDT
Status: Waiting for its scheduled moment
29LockedBirthday Light: Friends From Every Season
Idaho, Utah, church, neighbors, childhood, and everywhere else.
Your June 4 birthday reveal
Birthday Light: Friends From Every Season
Idaho, Utah, church, neighbors, childhood, and everywhere else.
Category: Birthday
Unlock: June 4 at 7:00 AM MDT
Status: Waiting for its scheduled moment
30LockedBirthday Light: Faith and Blessing
Prayers over the woman you are and the years ahead.
Your June 4 birthday reveal
Birthday Light: Faith and Blessing
Prayers over the woman you are and the years ahead.
Category: Birthday
Unlock: June 4 at 7:00 AM MDT
Status: Waiting for its scheduled moment
31LockedBirthday Light: Laughter We Will Keep
The funny stories that belong in the archive.
Your June 4 birthday reveal
Birthday Light: Laughter We Will Keep
The funny stories that belong in the archive.
Category: Birthday
Unlock: June 4 at 7:00 AM MDT
Status: Waiting for its scheduled moment
32LockedBirthday Light: Motherhood Echoes
What your children will carry because of you.
Your June 4 birthday reveal
Birthday Light: Motherhood Echoes
What your children will carry because of you.
Category: Birthday
Unlock: June 4 at 7:00 AM MDT
Status: Waiting for its scheduled moment
33LockedBirthday Light: The Marriage Story
Love, covenant, years, and the life Jeff keeps choosing with you.
Your June 4 birthday reveal
Birthday Light: The Marriage Story
Love, covenant, years, and the life Jeff keeps choosing with you.
Category: Birthday
Unlock: June 4 at 7:00 AM MDT
Status: Waiting for its scheduled moment
34LockedBirthday Light: What You Taught Us
Lessons people learned by watching you live.
Your June 4 birthday reveal
Birthday Light: What You Taught Us
Lessons people learned by watching you live.
Category: Birthday
Unlock: June 4 at 7:00 AM MDT
Status: Waiting for its scheduled moment
35LockedBirthday Light: Beauty and Fire
The warmth, color, spark, and strength that are unmistakably you.
Your June 4 birthday reveal
Birthday Light: Beauty and Fire
The warmth, color, spark, and strength that are unmistakably you.
Category: Birthday
Unlock: June 4 at 7:00 AM MDT
Status: Waiting for its scheduled moment
36LockedBirthday Light: The Legacy Begins
The birthday is not the ending. It is the opening.
Your June 4 birthday reveal
Birthday Light: The Legacy Begins
The birthday is not the ending. It is the opening.
Category: Birthday
Unlock: June 4 at 7:00 AM MDT
Status: Waiting for its scheduled moment
37LockedBirthday Light: Gratitude in Motion
Love becoming action, words, video, photos, and memory.
Your June 4 birthday reveal
Birthday Light: Gratitude in Motion
Love becoming action, words, video, photos, and memory.
Category: Birthday
Unlock: June 4 at 7:00 AM MDT
Status: Waiting for its scheduled moment
38LockedBirthday Light: Every Voice
A place for the people who needed to say it.
Your June 4 birthday reveal
Birthday Light: Every Voice
A place for the people who needed to say it.
Category: Birthday
Unlock: June 4 at 7:00 AM MDT
Status: Waiting for its scheduled moment
39LockedBirthday Light: The Gift You Are
The simple truth underneath the whole project.
Your June 4 birthday reveal
Birthday Light: The Gift You Are
The simple truth underneath the whole project.
Category: Birthday
Unlock: June 4 at 7:00 AM MDT
Status: Waiting for its scheduled moment
40LockedBirthday Light: Chapter 40
The full birthday reveal.
Your June 4 birthday reveal
Birthday Light: Chapter 40
The full birthday reveal.
Category: Birthday
Unlock: June 4 at 7:00 AM MDT
Status: Waiting for its scheduled moment
Private Admin
Behind the scenes, Jeff can protect, organize, schedule, and keep every contribution private.
Morning Delivery
Each Daily Light has its own private link, ready to be sent to you each day for you to open.
Legacy Vault
Your password-protected archive can grow beyond this birthday into future trips, anniversaries, milestones, and family lights.