Genesis 39

Look at your hands. Open your palm. Examine your fingers and thumb. Consider what they accomplish for you.

If your hands have been harmed or slowed down by changes in wellbeing, appreciate what they once did, and give thanks for their current functionality. Appreciate how we switch gears, continue our passions, or choose new ones as our bodies alter functionality. Sometimes other hands do what our own cannot do.

Hands offer touch and connection. Translate the world for us. Write and communicate. Gesture and speak. Manipulate and mediate the outer world and the human experience.

Sometimes they tear down or build up. Release or hold. Crush or caress. Wreck or write.

Hands make. Shape. Create. Express.

Today, give thanks for hands. — Rev Gail

His master saw that the Lord was with him, and that the Lord caused all that he did to prosper in his hands.
—Genesis 39:3

In his hand is the life of every living thing and the breath of every human being. — Job 12:10

My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. I give them eternal life, and they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand. My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father’s hand. I and the Father are one. — John 10:27-30

I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God’s hands, that, I still possess. — Corrie ten Boom