With My Own Two Hands

Today, I am deeply grateful for those of you who have supported the Dial Hope Foundation with a financial donation. So many people benefit from your giving!

At a huge conference for youth in Montreat, North Carolina, I heard singer/songwriter David LaMont speak as a keynote. I remember he told this group of 1,000 high school students that they could change the world. In fact, he said, you will change the world and you are changing the world, simply by being alive. The real question is whether you are changing it for the better or for the worse.

Another singer/songwriter Ben Harper wrote a song entitled, “With My Own Two Hands.” The words to that song are simple and true. Harper sings, “I can change the world, with my own two hands. I can make it a better place. I can make it a brighter place. I can make it a safer place. I can help the human race with my own two hands.”

Today, I invite you to look closely at your hands and ask the question, how can God use these hands this week?

Are there Habitat homes being built nearby? Are there people you can reach out to, people you know who are lonely or sad? Are there others who need to be fed or comforted?

I pray today that you would consider how you can change the world with your own two hands. Starting with the world right around you, how can you make it a better, brighter, more loving place?

Let us pray: Redeeming, healing God, we remember today that Jesus said we are to be the salt of the earth and the light of the world. We remember that you have blessed us in order to be a blessing to others. We recognize that our world is fractured and broken and yet we trust that you are at work to heal and make us whole again. Lord, we want to be the kind of people who work with you in that. We want to be the kind of people who make the world a better place.

We thank you for minds to think, eyes to see, hearts to feel, and hands to reach out. We offer to you today all that we have and all that we are. Show us, this week, how you want to use us to make a difference in this world that you so love. In Jesus’s name. Amen.