by Phil Smith, Director of Savings and Credit Association Programs

When you think about it, in our common vernacular, we use the word “hands” in so many different ways to describe the everyday events of our lives.

• Ownership or responsibility: “I’ll leave it in your capable hands.”
• Busy schedule: “My hands are full.”
• Act of giving (sometimes with negative connotations): “We don’t want to just give a hand out.”
• Protection from danger: “They didn’t lay a hand on them.”
• Request for (or offer to) help “Could you give me a hand? I’ll give you a hand.”

Over the years, we’ve built up quite a vocabulary on our hands to communicate so much of, well, life! And looking to Scripture, there is the same—if not more—use of the word “hands” as a symbolic and literal descriptor of life.  Continue Reading…