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1128th -- Laugh Lines

  

We should always have a lighthearted attitude in life. We should never 
take things so seriously that we allow them to steal our joy and make us 
feel less than our very best. We should look at life as a gift; a 
precious gift that we are lucky enough to have today and mindful of it 
enough to know that it isn't promised to us tomorrow. James 4:14 declares 
“...For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little 
time and then vanishes away.” Our life, no matter how long it may seem, 
will pass by all too quickly and we will wonder where the years went. 
Knowing that life is fleeting should cause us to enjoy and appreciate 
every moment of it. We should live our lives in love, in harmony and in 
oneness with those who mean the most to us. We should spend our days in 
joy and in laughter. We should do our best to make our love known so that 
there will never be a doubt in the minds of those whom we love the most.

Be encouraged to reevaluate how you are spending your days. Are you 
holding grudges? Are you being unforgiving? Are you wasting your energy 
on things that really do not matter or have relevance to your life? 
Answering these questions is helpful to make us change in the areas that 
we are lacking. We should do our best to live in peace and in harmony 
with those around us. We should live by Christ's example and command to 
love our neighbor as we love ourselves, to forgive those who have done 
wrong against us and to do unto others as we would have them do unto us. 
Let us use our life for our betterment and for the betterment of those 
around us. Let us enjoy every moment of life and not simply drudge 
through it. Let us wake up each morning saying, “Good morning Lord, I 
look forward to the blessing of today.” When our inner man is filled with 
the joy of the Lord, our outer man will reflect that same picture.

May God's peace, love and joy be yours today and every day thereafter.

I hope this message encourages and challenges your heart to look at life 
as a gift that should be relished and enjoyed each and every day.


LAUGH LINES

I try not to listen to other people’s conversations, but sometimes you 
can’t help but hear something that sticks with you. Sometimes a pearl of 
great wisdom slips into your ears and finds its way into your heart, mind,
and soul.

This is what happened to me the other day while I was walking in a store. 
I was looking for acne pads to help my youngest son’s teenage face. As I 
rounded the corner I heard a middle-aged woman with a little girl in her 
arms asking her grandmother what she thought about a brand new face cream 
that was supposed to diminish wrinkles and laugh lines. The grandmother 
just laughed and said, “Sweetie, I am 80 years old. I have learned to love 
all my laugh lines. After all, I earned every one of them.” Then just to 
prove her point she laughed again and tickled her great granddaughter. The 
little girl’s and the old woman’s laughter blended together with a sound 
as musical and beautiful as an angel’s song.

I left the store feeling a lot better about all the laugh lines I had 
earned in my own life. I remembered too all the beautiful faces I had seen 
over the years. The most radiant ones of all always seemed to have the 
most laugh lines as well as the fewest frown creases. They shined with 
joyous smiles and sparkling, loving eyes. Their beauty was ageless and 
eternal. It didn’t matter if they were 48, or 80 years old. They still 
glowed as true Children of God.

I think that I will follow that wise grandma’s advice and continue to love 
my laugh lines for all the years I have left here. They are the living 
proof of a life well lived. They are the foot prints that a loving soul 
leaves on the face. They are the roadmap that traces our wonderful journey 
with God. I hope that all of you learn to love your laugh lines as well. 
May you have the time of your life earning every one of them.

By Joseph J. Mazzella


Read and meditate on these scriptures:

Isaiah 43:18-19 “Remember ye not the former things, neither consider the 
things of old. Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; 
shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers 
in the desert.”

Romans 15:1-4 “We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of 
the weak, and not to please ourselves. Let every one of us please his 
neighbour for his good to edification. For even Christ pleased not 
Himself; but, as it is written, The reproaches of them that reproached 
thee fell on Me. For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written 
for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures 
might have hope.”

Psalm 28:6-8 “Blessed be the LORD, because He hath heard the voice of my 
supplications. The LORD is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in 
Him, and I am helped: therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth; and with my 
song will I praise Him. The LORD is their strength, and He is the saving 
strength of His anointed.”

1 Peter 3:8-11 “Finally, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of 
another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous: Not rendering evil 
for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise blessing; knowing that 
ye are thereunto called, that ye should inherit a blessing. For he that 
will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, 
and his lips that they speak no guile: Let him eschew evil, and do good; 
let him seek peace, and ensue it.”

All of these scriptures can be found in the King James Version Bible.


Today’s Selected Poem: YOU ARE IMPORTANT
Click here to read --- http://www.Godswork.org/enpoem134.htm

Today’s Selected Testimony: I'M AN OVERCOMER
Click here to read --- http://www.Godswork.org/testimony76.htm


In Christ’s Service,

Dwayne Savaya
God’s Work Ministry

 
 

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