Hands

What an amazing tool. Hot, cold, smooth, rough, wet, dry, all sensations that can be felt by the hands. Sometimes things can be placed in the wrong hands, a beautiful woman can be in the hands of the wrong man, a child can be placed in the hands of an abusive parent, and your heart can be placed in the wrong hands as well. Often times our hands are the only sensory perception we utilize. I have heard that the hands are the eyes of the soul. Some of the finest artifacts were hand made. Imagine if you will the life of one without the use of their hands. Never able to touch the one you love, never able to wipe a tear from a child’s eye, never able to stroke the hair of that special someone. What if you could never play thumb wars with your son?

Hands are the one thing everyone takes for granted. Every day we write, scratch our head, push the button of an elevator, press the buttons on the remote, type on a keypad, and lick our fingers to get the ketchup off. What would you do if you did not have hands? Could you cover your eyes and play hide and seek, tickle the belly of your child, pull the finger of your father who blames the noise on imaginary animals and blame the smell on you? Have you thought about your hands?

Sometimes hands prevent that husband from beating you up, that person from stealing your purse, allows that teller to hand you your weeks pay, hand over that weeks pay to the grocery store clerk, and whatever other bills you may have. We do a lot of things with our hands. We have poured concrete, filled ink cartridges, snapped pictures, curled hair, pulled people out of fires, counted money to ensure the audit was accurate, and type emails on analysis performed on consumption. Work takes up most of our hands time, but every now and again we get to hold the woman you love, box with the son you adore, shake the hand of that person you just met, wave at the neighbor across the street, pick up the phone to call that loved one, write the formula for the aids cure, take out the trash you forgot yesterday, man we do a lot with our hands.

We do a lot of things with our hands. Perhaps the most important thing we can do with our hands is to give them in service to our fellow man, care for those who can not care for themselves. Wait, that is not correct, the most important thing we can do with our hands is to place them in the steeple position and give thanks for our blessing, one of those blessing being our hands.