The Blessing Of Wrinkles
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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!
I love your e-mails, too. I’m 68 and I don’t have any of the things you walked about that makes you look older, but I do have children and grandchildren that I love very much. And I would gladly get white hair and wrinkles if I could get to see and talk to my one grandson that I don’t get to see and talk to, because I love him and his mother, too even if she dose not know it. Love, Ruby.
I am so glad you are enjoying the e-mails Ruby!!
This prayer remind me of my mother’s gray hair and deep wrinkles. Losing my parents and my son has being the hardest thing in my life. I will them some day. Thanks for the beautiful prayer.
I can’t imagine the heartache Agnes, but you are so right, you will see them again one day!
Thank you for the lovely post. I have always been and continue to be a huge smiler. Needless to say , I have many wrinkles. I’m okay with them though, because I have had such a great time developing them. It’s rare for me not to receive a smile in return for one I’ve given, so wrinkles are fine with me and evidently others too.
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I have the badges of a life lived with a bunch of kids and grandkids. Crows feet, lines here and there, white hair. I hope I wear it well.
What wonderful badges to have Betty, I imagine you wear them very well!!
Christy, loved your post. I smile a lot,not many wrinkles but hair has started graying. It is a joy yo hear grandma I LOVE YOU AND i MISS YOU. CHRISTY I would like a sugar free recipe for a pound cake. Wrinkles made my day smiles.GOD BLESS,
That is a wonderful thing to hear indeed Elizabeth!!!
Beautiful post today,Christy loved it.
Thank you Daphne!
Beautifully said Christy. Enjoying your recipes every week. Thank you for your posts of encouragement. May God Bless
Thank you Pat!! I am so glad you are enjoying the recipes!! Blessings to you!