Healing Hands

Healing.

Healing is defined as


"v. healed, heal·ing, heals
v.tr.
1. To restore to health or soundness; cure. See Synonyms at cure.
2. To set right; repair: healed the rift between us.
3. To restore (a person) to spiritual wholeness.
v.intr.
To become whole and sound; return to health."


How does healing occur? How is it obtained?


The 3 men in my life hold a power of healing within their hands. Each one vastly different from the other. Healing and a sense of peace flow from within their spirit, their words, their touch and even in their silence.


The first man I ever loved, my father, has always been a healer to me. He has always known what to say, how to say it and when to say it. Not always when I wanted to hear it...


As a child my safety was found in my fathers presence. I remember as a little girl I would sit and watch him work on the house. I was always drawn to how his hands looked. Rustic, tough, grease under the nails and perfectly carved wrinkles that told his story. You didnt need to be a plam reader to know that he worked hard and sacrificed it all. However, in the middle of this leather stability was a softness, a tenderness and a love that was softer and more tender, than the skin of an innocent child. His hands...healing.


My son came home from church one evening. He was excited. His big brown eyes sat batting infront of me. He placed out his hands and whispered, "I have healing hands..." a smile creeped across his face and his eyes widened deeper than the Pacific. He than casually walked away. My world changed because he has noticed his annointing and he walked away with those hands hummbled and honored, appreciative and excited.


On the palm of his tiny hands lays a small brown mole. Since he was a baby I have always felt this tiny "blemish" was a simple reminder that the Lord has touched his hands and would remain with him for his entire life. The Lord would remain with him, all he had to do is decide to let him.


The bible talks about a man named Eli. I talk about one also. His hands are obviously different from the ones I have seen most in my life. The irony is that I saw his healing hands within his smile and his renewing is found burried in his words yet flows through his hands.


Whatever his hands touch scream healing. His heart, emotions, and love for others flows through his fingers and are expelled into the air and into your spirit reguardless of what creative outlet is used. Healing drenches his art and brings wholeness.


While these 3 sets of physical hands allow a spiritual whirlwind of new life, we must remember that these hands all work only because the Lord has chosen to let them. Just like a piece of machinery, we have been designed to work as our creator intended and we all know that we work better and more efficently when we follow the manufacturers directions rather than our own.


So why do we insist on mushing the directions into a ball and leaving the functionality of our thoughtful design to our miserable attempt of "do it yourself" building and repairing?


Healing.