Our children are brushing up on the Hayr Mer in Sunday School, which led to a good question from the kids: Why do we open our arms and turn up our palms as we pray the Lord’s Prayer?  I don’t know if you have wondered that, but there is much significance in this detail. Because in church we don’t just worship God with our words, we worship with our bodies too, our whole self.  So this movement of our hands reinforces the meaning of our prayer; ‘God my heart and my hands are open to you.’  We talk a lot about the need for an open heart in the journey of faith, but today we will talk about the need for open hands; because the two really go together.  We open our hearts to God in worship, in order to open up our hands. God help me stop grasping and be grasped by you who are greater. We think good thoughts in order to do good deeds. God I am blessed by your hands, use my hands for the blessing of others. So let’s take a closer look at these hands  which get so little attention in the spiritual life.