blessed be the hands

one of my favourite blogs to read is Subversive Influence because he's right here in the same town that i'm in, we run in some of the same common circles and yet we've never met (that i know of) so there's still some mystery attached to him. Brother Maynard runs that blog and regularly inspires me with the stuff he puts up there.
in this situation he's got me thinking about hands and i've always been fascinated by hands because they do so much. i long for my hands to be blessed in the things that they do and i pray that they are. i'm rendered speechless by stuff like this because i know that it'd give me pause and probably make me weepy if we did a blessing like this in our community.
we should probably do that though.



Blessed be the work of your hands — Holy God.
You hold us in your hands.

Blessed be the hands that have touched life.
Blessed be the hands that have nurtured creativity.
Blessed be the hands that have held pain.
Blessed be the hands that have embraced with passion.
Blessed be the hands that have closed in anger.
Blessed be the hands that have planted new seeds.
Blessed be the hands that have harvested ripe fields.
Blessed be the hands that have cleaned, washed, and scrubbed.
Blessed be the hands that have become wrinkled with years.
Blessed be the hands that are scarred from doing justice.
Blessed be the hands that have reached out and been received.
Blessed be the hands that feed those who are hungry.
Blessed be the hands that comfort the dying and touch the dead.
Blessed be the hands that greet strangers.
Blessed be the hands that guide the young.

Blessed be these hands — for they are the work of Your hands.

Go in peace. Serve the Lord.
Thanks be to God.