I Am a Masterpiece!

Recently I was looking in the mirror and noticed a couple of new spots and wrinkles.  I am fast approaching 60 and it is beginning to show in my face, around my eyes and even on my hands.  I could swear that brown spot or this wrinkle wasn’t there last week.  To be honest, I don’t feel anywhere close to age 60 so when I look in the mirror I am surprised to see an older woman staring back at me.  I’m active, happy and up for just about anything women much younger than me are.

As I trace the lines on my face and wrinkles on my neck, I think to myself “Wow.  How and when did I get old?” I am richly and extravagantly loved by my family and a host of sweet friends, old and new.  But still…… I often do not feel very pretty any more. 

I’m gazing into the mirror, focusing on the blemishes, scars and imperfections when I hear a sweet, still Voice :“ Oh, my lovely one.  Do you not know? You are my most precious masterpiece!”  That beautiful face has smiled thousands of smiles; that’s why there are lines around your perfectly blue eyes.  Your lips have kissed away your babies’ tears and whispered prayers in the night that no one heard but Me.  You have always loved My sunshine and it's okay that it shows on your face!

Your hands…. Aww, those hands.  How many meals have you prepared with so much love……how many little hands have you held, guiding and protecting?  You have played so many songs on your piano, simply to glorify My Name! I watched your tiny little-girl hands learn to fold and say prayers.  I delight when you raise those very same hands in worship to me!

Your belly isn’t flat anymore, as it was when you were a girl. The warrior princesses that serve in My kingdom today? Why, you covered them and protected them in your womb as I secretly knit them together.  I whispered tenderly to them even before they were born, while they grew safely in the warmth and quiet of your strong, young body.  Had it not been for you they would not have been born.

So you see, My beloved, you are far more beautiful to me than the most breathtaking snowcapped mountain range, field of wildflowers or surging ocean.  Nothing in this world compares to you. You are the masterpiece of My heart!  And, I cannot wait until I can put my arms around you and welcome you home to be with Me where the sun shines forever more!