I Feel Sorry for My Good-Looking Friends (standard:humor, 907 words)
Author: Godspenman	Added: Jun 04 2023	Views/Reads: 296/152	Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes)
My life, even my wrinkles, is in the capable hands of God.

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If I had the time and money my friends used to eliminate the wrinkles, I
could retire in luxury. 

Many try to show how young they look whenever we have a family
get-together. They walk around smiling, hoping somebody will notice how 
young they look. 

For some of them, when we plan to get together, it takes several weeks
to prepare for that get-together. I can get together overnight and have 
no problems with that. 

I try to contain myself, but it is tough when you have all my wrinkles.
Whenever I meet one of those people, and I know who they are, I always 
compliment them on their good looks. They always smile back and thank 
me. 

Then, out of nowhere, I sometimes say, "You don't have as many wrinkles
today as you did the last time I saw you." I laugh, but they usually 
don't join in. 

I don't know any of them that like me saying that sort of thing, but
that's the cost of trying to look young when you're old. 

It must be a very hard job to stay young anymore. On the other side of
the mirror, I have an easy life of looking as old as possible. Every 
wrinkle on my face is an opportunity to celebrate that I'm still 
getting older. 

In the Old Testament, Job had an issue with wrinkles. "And thou hast
filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me: and my leanness 
rising up in me beareth witness to my face" (Job 16:8). 

I can relate to Job, but then I remembered what the Apostle Paul said in
Ephesians 5:27, "That he (Christ) might present it to himself a 
glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but 
that it should be holy and without blemish." 

My life, even my wrinkles, is in the capable hands of God.


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