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Category: Relationships / Topics: Faith • Family • Mother's Day • Tribute, Testimony
My Mother's Hands
Posted: May 6, 2016
A lasting symbol of a faithful life
My mother's hands are gnarled and quite wrinkled.
The kiss of time has left its beauty marks.
Those slender fingers clutch for more than mem'ries.
They reach in love to comfort hurting hearts.
My mother's hands upraised in praise to Jesus
call me to worship and to seek His face.
My mother's hands still fold to ask God's blessing.
They grasp His hand and hold on for dear life.
Much like a toddler takes her daddy's fingers,
my mother clings to God with knuckles white.
My mother's hands recall her deep devotion
inviting me to serve the Lord she loves.
My mother's hands are strangers to an iPad.
But they make music when she's asked to play.
An old upright or baby grand piano
provide the keys on which her fingers pray.
My mother's hands can entertain her neighbors
while worshiping the One who owns her heart.
My mother's hands will one day cease their motion.
Deprived of life, they'll lay unclenched and still.
They will remind me of her faithful service
responding to a call that she fulfilled.
My mother's hands will on that day direct me
to fix my gaze on our eternal home.
*the above poem can be sung to the tune "Finlandia"
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Greg Asimakoupoulos (pronounced AWESOME-uh-COPE-uh-less) is an ordained minister, published author and chaplain to a retirement community in the Pacfic Northwest. Greg maintains a blog called Rhymes and Reasons, which he graciously provides to SeniorLifestyle.Greg's writings have now been assembled in book form. See the SeniorLifestyle Store. • E-mail the author (moc.loa@veRemosewA*) • Author's website (personal or primary**)
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