It was a great piece of work which, unfortunately, got lost when we left England and came to Canada.
I have been fascinated with hands ever since.
Think about your own hands. Your uniqueness is written into your finger prints. Nobody in the whole world can match yours. If you stretch your little finger back you cannot make a fist. Do the same with your index finger and you can. This is because the power muscles of the arm control the baby finger and the ring finger. The other three ( including the thumb) are the manipulators of the hand. Everything you see built around you was produced by the ability of the human thumb to work in conjunction with the other four fingers. This is the single biggest distinction between men and monkeys. The monkey's thumb is not opposed to its fingers because it sticks out of the side of its wrist and therefore cannot manipulate with its other digits.
O the wonder of the human hand!
And O the wonder of the Hand of God to create, protect, direct, preserve, up-hold, control and guide His world and YOU in it.
Juliana, a saint of the middle ages, held a hazel nut in the palm of her hand and remarked "There, in essence, is the sum total of all things in the palm of our Heavenly Father."
Think about that and you will see that you don't have anything to worry about because in the middle of the palm there is a nail print.
Jubilate.
Ian
