One Pair of Hands

Glen Campbell sang a song that really hit my heart entitled "One Pair of Hands."

One pair of hands built the mountains, one pair of hands formed the sea. And one pair of hands made the sun and the moon, every bird, every flower, every tree. One pair of hands formed the valleys, the ocean, the rivers and the sand. His hands are so strong, so when life goes wrong, put your faith in one pair of hands...............yes one pair of hands! WOW.

Just the power of this thought says how can anyone doubt the wonderful things God does and can do. It has made me value my hands as a wonderful possession and gift from God. I pray that I can always use my hands for good things, like helping others. My mother, Hazel Yeomans wrote a poem many years ago about her hands that just about says it all:

My Hands.......A million times a day, I thank you God, they're made this way.

They're large, but being large they do, the many things I want them to.

They help to cook and sew and bake, they're not too nice to hoe and rake.

They wash the clothes and hang them up, bath a baby, then scrub a pup.

Pick up after a family, and yet...........they can play a rhapsody.

No, they're not white with nails of pink, but I wouldn't want that kind I think.

They are not idle lazy hands, content with wearing golden bands.

My hands don't boast of diamond rings, they're large hands.......meant for doing things.

I would suggest to everyone to make a list of just ONE day in your life of all the things you do that day with your pair of hands. I think that night in your prayers you would say, "thank you God for my hands."

I am grateful today: for my wonderful pair of hands.