Prayer of Blessing the Work of Our Hands

Prayer of Blessing the Work of Our Hands

Blessed be the works of your hands,

O Holy One.

Blessed be these hands that have touched life.

Blessed be these hands that have nurtured creativity.

Blessed be these hands that have held pain.

Blessed be these hands that have embraced with passion.

Blessed be these hands that have tended gardens.

Blessed be these hands that have closed in anger.

Blessed be these hands that have planted new seeds.

Blessed be these hands that have harvested ripe fields.

Blessed be these hands that have cleaned, washed,

mopped, scrubbed.

Blessed be these hands that have become knotty with age.

Blessed be these hands that are wrinkled and scarred

from doing justice.

Blessed be these hands that have reached out and

been received.

Blessed be these hands that hold the promise of the

future.

Blessed be the works of your hands,

O Holy One.

Prayer by Diann Neu from Imaging the Word: An Arts and

Lectionary Resource, Volume 1, 1994.