Joy Is My Goal: Thursday 13 HANDS

Thursday, September 27, 2007

Thursday 13 HANDS

Have you ever thought about how wonderful hands are? There was a time in my life when asked 'what part of you do you not like?' and I replied: "I hate my hands" but since then I have come to realize all the wonderful things hands can do... I now love them and especially love all the others who give me a hand in life...

Hands show trust...

They play..

They Work...

Hands feed...

Hands grow...

Hands communicate...

Hands help...

Hands celebrate...

Hands Create...

or help create

Hands comfort..

Hands are for Holding

Hands pledge...

Taken all together hands LOVE

34 comments:

jenn said...: That is beautiful!; 12:45 PM
Anonymous said...: What a wonderful visual TT! I love it...; 12:52 PM
Robin said...: That's beautiful. I think you might enjoy something I wrote a few months ago called My Son's Fingers.

Happy TT.; 1:12 PM
Anonymous said...: I loooooooooooved that more than 13 ways, fellow blogger!!! Infinately profound!!!; 2:30 PM
Anonymous said...: That's a WONDERFUL post! So imaginative! Thank you.; 2:32 PM
Bethanne said...: oh! those are so great. I just love this post...; 2:35 PM
Anonymous said...: That was beautiful! I'm sharing you in my google reader! Love it!; 2:36 PM
Anonymous said...: Such a neat, sweet idea!; 2:54 PM
nikko said...: Very cool! How fun to see my hands in your post. :o); 2:58 PM
MaR said...: Beautiful hands, what a creative and great TT!
Happy bday to your mom :), enjoy the celebration !; 3:05 PM
Rebecca said...: absolutely beautiful!; 3:05 PM
impwork said...: Wow. Thats the most original TT I've seen today. Great idea %-^; 3:10 PM
Anonymous said...: I love that. How sweet.; 3:18 PM
Susan Helene Gottfried said...: I'm a sucker for a man with great hands. I actually had to stop dating a few guys 'cause I couldn't bear the thought of being touched by their hands!

I'm glad you stopped by; this was one of the best TTs I've ever seen!; 3:37 PM
Jennie said...: thanks!; 4:15 PM
Chelle Y. said...: This is a beautiful idea of a TT!

Cute hands!

www.chelleyoung.com; 4:19 PM
Lana said...: we surely would love a hand with the carnival!
I'll let you know how you can help after we have planned :) Thanx!; 4:34 PM
Anonymous said...: Awwwww, what a wonderful idea for a T13! Warm, loving, inspirational, and handy! LOL! Thanks so much for a real day-brightener. :)

Happy TT, and thanks for visiting mine!; 4:48 PM
cat said...: I recognize Mickey's; 5:59 PM
Anonymous said...: One of the best TT posts.; 6:30 PM
Addicted to crafting said...: That is amazing! I visited your DIL to wish her a happy belated birthday!!!

Happy TT!!! See you soon! :); 7:48 PM
Anonymous said...: That is a wonderful photo essay!; 8:17 PM
Anonymous said...: The photos are so beautiful..
I love the 1st pic of Hand show Trust..; 9:30 PM
Rebecca said...: That was very interesting - what a neat concept. Although, if you want to know a secret: I've always been embarressed about my hands. I'm different. :-0; 10:50 PM
Gattina said...: Wonderful TT, and very original !; 10:58 PM
Dorothy said...: I often thought I hated my hands, too, until I saw how you put this together. Lovely. Makes me think and be thankful.; 12:06 AM
Anonymous said...: That was a beautiful idea, with beautiful photographs. Thank you!; 1:01 AM
Klin said...: Great post. I loved it. I also loved the little BYU cougar shirt.; 8:52 AM
Anonymous said...: What a great and original TT. I love all the pictures. Thanks for visiting.; 9:23 AM
Heather said...: Those are some wonderful pictures, I love the ones of little kids. :); 12:05 PM
Julia Phillips Smith said...: That was really beautiful. I absolutely love the picture of the finger touching the rose.; 8:54 PM
Darla said...: Oh, this is wonderful! Sorry I'm so late this week--I'm really glad I stopped by.; 6:53 AM
Jennie said...: hey.... just wanted you to know that i tagged you...; 10:29 AM
K said...: A great series of photos!; 6:48 AM

"A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world." --Paul Dudley White

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"Now if you are going to win any battle you have to do one thing. You have to make the mind run the body. Never let the body tell the mind what to do. The body will always give up. It is always tired in the morning, noon, and night. But the body is never tired if the mind is not tired." - George S. Patton, U.S. Army General, 1912 Olympian

Poem: “Welcome to Holland” by Emily Perl Kingsley

I am often asked to describe the experience of raising a child with a disability - to try to help people who have not shared that unique experience to understand it, to imagine how it would feel. It’s like this…
When you’re going to have a baby, it’s like planning a fabulous vacation trip - to Italy. You buy a bunch of guide books and make your wonderful plans. The coliseum. The Michelangelo David. The gondolas in Venice. You may learn some handy phrases in Italian. It’s all very exciting.
After months of eager anticipation, the day finally arrives. You pack your bags and off you go. Several hours later, the plane lands. The stewardess comes in and says, “Welcome To Holland”.
“Holland?!?” you say, “What do you mean “Holland”??? I signed up for Italy! I’m supposed to be in Italy. All my life I’ve dreamed of going to Italy”
But there’s been a change in the flight plan. They’ve landed in Holland and there you must stay.
The important thing is that they haven’t taken you to a horrible, disgusting, filthy place, full of pestilence, famine and disease. It’s just a different place.
So you must go and buy new guide books. And you must learn a whole new language. And you will meet a whole new group of people you would never have met.
It’s just a different place. It’s slower-paced than Italy, less flashy than Italy. But after you’ve been there for a while and you catch your breath, you look around…and you begin to notice that Holland has windmills…Holland has tulips. Holland even has Rembrandts.
But everyone you know is busy coming and going from Italy…and they’re all bragging about what a wonderful time they had there. And for the rest of your life, you will say “Yes that’s where I was supposed to go. That’s what I had planned”.
And the pain of that will never, ever, ever, ever go away…because the loss of that dream is a very significant loss.
But…if you spend your life mourning the fact that you didn’t get to Italy, you may never be free to enjoy the very special, the very lovely things…about Holland.

Joy Is My Goal

Thursday, September 27, 2007

Thursday 13 HANDS

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