During the span of years we call a lifetime, our hands are engaged in doing many things. Small infants may wrap a tiny hand around the finger of a parent or an older sibling for assurance. Toddlers will hold the hand of someone for stability as they begin to walk. With our hands, we learn how to eat, dress ourselves, write, play, work, and develop our various God-given gifts and talents. As we grow older, the aging process may require us to receive a helping hand to do certain things that we can no longer do by ourselves.
Hands were created to give & receive friendship & love
Dieter F. Uchtdorf, Second Counselor in the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, tells us that during the bombing of a city in World War II, a large statue of Jesus Christ was severely damaged. When the townspeople found the statue among the rubble, they mourned because it had been a beloved symbol of their faith and of God’s presence in their lives.
Experts were able to repair most of the statue, but its hands had been damaged so severely that they could not be restored. Some suggested that they hire a sculptor to make new hands, but others wanted to leave it as it was—a permanent reminder of the tragedy of war. Ultimately, the statue remained without hands. However, the people of the city added on the base of the statue of Jesus Christ a sign with these words: “You are my hands.”
As professed followers of the Savior, we must be willing to use our hands to help and save spiritually. All about us both within the Church and in our neighborhood communities there are many individuals and families that need spiritual help. God's great work and glory is "to bring to pass the immortality and eternal live of man" (Moses 1:39).
Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.
- Mother Teresa
As we offer a saving hand to less-active members, to part-member families, and to those not of our faith, we invite all to “come unto Christ.” Every one of us is surrounded by those in need of our attention, our encouragement, our support, our comfort, our kindness. May we prayerfully each day seek out those in need that we might be the hands of the Lord in helping and saving His children.
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