Nothing, nothing of God by myself, my hands, my voice, my feet, my all as if a glove, sitting on the shelf, limp Given life, meaning, purpose your spirit moving within me my hands, merely skin, a glove moving as you direct when I submit, servant to your will Let me be empty, so I may be filled Let me be the gloves of your hands
February 21, 2009 on posting the poem below and getting feedback ---------------------- Merely Gloves
The spirit the actor, we the vessels the skin of our flesh, the gloves of the spirit touching lives, changing hearts offering hope, all to God’s glory Merely the gloves holding our neighbors the spirit moving in us to help change the world
May 10, 2008 Acts 2:1-21 Pentecost and quote attributed to Corrie ten Bloom, “I have a glove here in my hand. The glove cannot do anything by itself, but when my hand is in it, it can do many things. True, it is not the glove, but my hand in the glove that acts. We are gloves. It is the Holy Spirit in us who is the hand, who does the job. We have to make room for the hand so that every finger is filled.”