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Eight fingers and two thumbs. So describes your hands, which are really history books on review. Look at them and let them remind you of all that they have done in your lifetime. For yes, they have been servants of your thoughts and beliefs translated into action.
Ask yourself how many have they helped?
How many have they hurt? When, and where and why? When you have extended them in acts of fellowship they were a blessing. When they have been extended in acts of major or minor violence they have been a curse.
Have they been giving hands? Or stealing hands? Hands
that have held books of inspiration or books of filth? Have they
written notes of thanksgiving to give joy or poison pen letters to
destroy? They can be a surgeon’s hand holding a knife to heal. Or A murderer’s hand holding a knife to kill.
Hands tell us so much about the person. Hands clasping and unclasping, not at ease. Hands lying quietly, at peace with the world and God. Hands blasting a horn, giving a finger, sometimes hands much too angry.
There is a tinge of paint on the hands – an artist and the world is seen as a place of beauty.
He washes his hands over and over and over again. His name is Pilate and he cannot seem to ever wash them enough. For him, the world is a place of overwhelming guilt.
His hands are steady, persistent, patient, as he holds the sextant. Look closely for these are the hands of Christopher Columbus.
This hand pens a large, bold signature; large enough for fat King Charles to read without his glasses. It
is John Hancock’s hand signing the Declaration of Independence, and
then passing it on this great document on for other hands to sign.
During World War II, Sir Winston Churchill raised two fingers to form a V for victory. And
on the battlefields of that war, as done by countless generations
before, so many hands were placed together in the sacred act of prayer.
As
legend tells it, many years ago in a certain church, on a very
particular day, all the people were asked to bring great gifts to lay
upon the altar. All had been told that the greatest gift would cause a miracle - that a heavenly choir would burst forth with song. And so they came, bringing boxes of gold, silver, jewels, and spices. All kind of wealth. A long line of hope and yet nothing happened. Silence. Unrelenting silence.
Then, slowly there came walking down the aisle a peasant girl. Her tattered clothes hung loose. Her pale fingers almost luminescent as she moved toward the towering piles of magnificent offerings. Kneeling, she reached forward and put down…. her hands. . . and left them there.
For a long time she moved them not, offering them to God. It was all she had, and she gave it.. Then softly, at first no louder than a whisper, came the sound of a celestial chorus, building to a crescendo. The very walls reverberated with angel voices of acclamation. For yes, her gift was the greatest, the most wondrous, the gift of self.
Someone once wrote, “God takes a hand wherever He can find it. Here, the hand of a mother to guide her child; there, the hand of a neighbor to be a friend. The hands of those who believe.
“Do
not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of
your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what
is good and acceptable and perfect.”
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A quote below from tomorrow’s ONE A DAY blog entitled HANDS (2nd in Series)
From
the 10 Commandments to the Beatitudes to the admonitions to love and
forgive beyond compare, does not God set before us superlatives?
Wanting us to be doers rather than deadheads.
To give blessings rather than curses. To seek solutions rather than problems. To be peacemakers rather than provokers. To be builders rather than destroyers.
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