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| WRINKLE MOVERS By:Joseph J. Mazzella I saw a new advertisement today for a wrinkle remover. It guaranteed to make you look and feel twenty years younger.� This caused me to think. Do I want to remove my wrinkles? I went and took a peek at myself in the mirror. The truth was I didn�t seem to have that many wrinkles until I smiled and I kind of liked those when I saw them. Besides I already felt and acted twenty years younger than my age anyway. My wife and kids would attest to that. I decided that I didn�t want to give up my smile creases and laugh lines. After all, I had earned them and enjoyed making them. The truth is that there are a lot of beautiful wrinkles out there.� I don�t know why our society is so obsessed with removing them.� They are wonderful evidence of the laughter, love, and joy that people have had in their lives. They are glorious monuments to a life lived in happiness and delight. They are lovely signposts of a million peaceful smiles. Of course, some wrinkles come from pain, worry, and sadness. Still, God gives us a whole lifetime to create wrinkles and it is never too late to create new wrinkles of love and joy. Maybe all of us should quit trying to remove our wrinkles and start trying to move them to more joyous places instead.� If you ask me there is a wonderful beauty in a smiling face full of wrinkles that show just how much it has smiled before.� Become a wrinkle mover then. Choose love and joy every second of everyday. Smile in delight at every good thing and at everyone you meet. Share every bit of love, laughter, and joy you have. Make those laugh lines deep and take joy in the wonderful life you have lived to create them. Live for the love in your soul not the condition of your skin. Remember, God gives us laughter, smiles, love, joy, peace, happiness, and delight. Why should we take away or cover up the glorious portrait they create? |