ELOGOS for Tuesday

I Timothy 2:1-2,8
First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for everyone, for kings and all who are in high positions, so that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and dignity.....  I desire, then, that in every place the men should pray, lifting up holy hands without anger or argument
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What are we doing with our hands?  Are we texting our family?  Are we signing a consent for surgery form?  Are we typing? Are we clicking the remote? Are driving a car? Are we flipping a page?  Are swiping a card? Are we stirring a pot? Are we warming our hands on a cup of coffee? Are we shaking our fist?  Are we holding a hand? Are we sticking a needle? Are we wiping a nose?  What are we doing with our hands...to change the world....to quiet an anxious heart....to lift up a damaged soul....to stop a cruel blow?  Our hands will find a variety of things to do. They will always be doing something. What if....just what if....we used them to pray at the same time they were finding something to do?  St. Benedict said, Ora et Labora.  Pray and work.  He did not say pray THEN work or work THEN pray.  He said, pray AND work.  
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"Take my hands and let them move at the impulse of thy love."  Amen.