EP 19: Blessing the Work of Our Hands The Slow Way

What if we treated all the utensils of our lives as if they were sacred? What if we blessed the kitchens where we throw together our twenty minute meals, and make the bed we will sleep in as if we were cozying up our space for the divine? What if the computer keys where we tap out messages on Slack are an invitation to love? What if the meeting we lead for our team of colleagues matters, not just to our career, but to the flourishing of the world? There’s a phrase that keeps coming back to me from the Torah, the Hebrew book of Deuteronomy: “The Lord will open the heavens, the storehouse of his bounty, to send rain on your land in season and to bless all the work of your hands.”
Our hands are holy, and they are invited by the Life-Peace-Grace-Maker to create meaning out of everything.
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