The Blessing Of Wrinkles
Hopefully you’ve known a kind older person in your lifetime. One whose face is filled with wrinkles from a lifetime of smiles, whose cheeks have a rosy glow from making the effort to be cheerful, and whose eyes have a twinkle of wisdom and memories.
The only thing capable of rivaling such beauty is a smile from a newborn babe.
Forget wanting to look like movie stars and “perfect” folks. I want wrinkles, LOTS of them. I want laugh lines around my mouth and crinkles at my eyes. I want wore out hands from preparing meals for generations and I want joints so used they begin to wear and ache in my older years.
And don’t you dare deny me my white hair as a testament of the grace I was shown in being able to watch my kids and grandkids grow up!
God, keep me so busy and focused on the living at hand and the love, smiles, laughter, and joy that come with it that I could not possibly end up with a drawn and pinched face or the time or inclination to have one stretched and taught from trying to hide the evidence of a life well lived.
I want to leave this world with every blessed wrinkle I can possibly manage to earn and when I grow old, stand back coz I’ll show them what beautiful really is.
Lookout world. Granny’s got cookies!
Make some wrinkles today!
This post reminded me of my late Daddy. He always smiled and wanted us children to know that we were loved. His heart was so big, he never ever let us leave empty handed. How I miss him so.
Good message today, but I would so be willing to wait another 10 years for the wrinkles and especially, the sore joints! I would like to be able to pick up my grandbabies without it hurting and worrying that I won’t lose my grip on them. Accepting the growing number of years of life well lived and loved, I’ll take that. Bless you!!
I teach a Sunday School class and one of the older ladies whose sweet face was a mass of wrinkles remarked, “I like my wrinkles, I worked for them, I earned them, and I appreciate them!” So as my wrinkles grow, so do I appreciate them. Thanks for your blog. Love reading them.
Love this!!! Thank you for the smile ~ but I still gotta go get my roots touched up!!!!!
Great & inspiring attitude!
Romans 15:13 : )
Thank you for sharing the reason I have wrinkles, aches, pains and hair that Mother Nature enhanced. I will no longer worry how I am aging.
Loved this wonderful post!!