Hands are useful. They allow us to accomplish many things. Not only are they able to do, but they also help us communicate. All of us have probably been recipients of bad communications when people use their hands to make gestures that were less than complimentary. There are also good gestures - a gesture that says "hi," or a wave. In Brazil, if a mother beckons her child like this (palm up), the child understands that the mother is communicating for the child to come. But if she beckons the child like this (palm down), the child also understands that they are to come, but they are to come to receive food. The varying positions of the hand communicate to the child differing messages.

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We use varying hand postures as we pray

Tonight the Psalmist talks to us about our hands in the act of…