Who knew that I would develop such a distain

and look at my hands and feel such pain

A constant reminder of my age

My youth is gone and now the next stage

It’s hard to get old, to look at my face

I see things now that I wish I could erase

Lines and wrinkles, sagging and stains

Feeble reminders of my life’s pains

Who knew I would cringe at hearing Ma’am

instead of Miss, that feeling’s like “Dang…

Am I really that old? That you’d say that to me?”

I’m just little Katie, what I used to be

I don’t feel how I look, that girl inside screams

I am not anymore, what that now means

that life is now different, I don’t have my youth

It’s gone in an instant, now that is the truth

Like I blinked and I’m old, wow! It’s true

I try to deny it but it makes me feel blue

So down in the dumps and I don’t even look

At the girl in the mirror, that reflection’s a crook!

My reflection took away a good feeling I used to get

When I’d look I’d say, “you’ll never be old”, I bet

I’ll always look young, don’t worry, silly you!

But it happened, and now I sit and I stew

and I wish that I didn’t look the way that I do

Be careful, dear youth, it will happen to you too.

But I looked again, and I saw fresh and anew

These hands do way more than my youth used to

I can use a chainsaw, I can sew a full dress

My hands build furniture, they comfort duress

I can hold my two children, and wipe off their tears

I can turn pages of books and love them for years

My hands paint masterpieces, they type fun little rhymes

They hold up a giant when he is falling behind

but the most fantastic thing that my hands do now

Is fold together, while to my knees I bow

and pray to the Lord and tell him about how

I love him so dearly and I’ll never go back

to my youth, my life that was so off-track

So now when I look at my old hands

more beautiful, more powerful, way stronger than youth,

My faith, my new life is my living proof

My value is way deeper than my temporary skin

that unreliable beauty is so very thin

My true beauty is found way deep within

My heart, my soul, and so I begin

to love what I see when I look at my eyes

Cause that smile shines deeper to my happy surprise

I don’t see any wrinkles, I don’t care about age

I see eternity, I see beauty, I see a brand-new stage

That’s so much better than what I used to see

Thank you God for this brand-new me.

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I love looking at the Bible after I am inspired by a rhyme.

Hands are such powerful tools.  I am grateful for mine.  They do so many wonderful things.  Yet, they showed the first signs of aging, which also started to make me realize a weakness.  God, help me to be grateful for all aspects of life, even the hard ones.

SO, back to the Bible.  I love these verses in the Bible with reference to hands.

www.biblegateway.com

Isaiah 41:10-13 New International Version (NIV)

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