Abraham Lincoln

cast of honest abe's hands

Lincoln’s hands were longer than normal and that his fingers were longer than normal. Lincoln used an axe more or less all day every day from the time he was about 8 years old until he was 23.  He spent a lifetime using his hands to better our country, the USA.  Lincoln used his hands to save the Union by freeing the slaves. Lincoln’s hands endorsed the 13TH Amendment to the Constitution abolishing slavery throughout the United States in 1864.   He used his hands to write down the Gettysburg Address. 

picture source: http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/index.cfm

History of Lincoln: http://sc94.ameslab.gov/TOUR/alincoln.html

Nana

Nana holding hands with youngest grandchild

Nana holding hands with 2nd youngest grandchild

Mary Marjorie Reim was born in 1923 and passed away in 2009.  As child she lived in both CT and VT and then lived most of her life Palmer, MA.  In high school she fell in love with Francis Reim…she worked hard and had a career at a factory in Palmer, MA, while she waited for true love to come home from World War II and for him to get educated.  She waited 8 years…she was committed to him and spent his entire lifetime married to him.  She raised 4 children.  Her hands represent a strong woman.  When I met her, right before I married her youngest son, she told me what her mission in life was…to be a good wife and mother.  She was full of life and wisdom.  She embraced the two grandchildren that were born 17 years later than her 7 older grandchildren.  She embraced her great grand children, at the same time as well.  Nana was always concerned for the well-being of her husband, children, the generations that followed and those before her, as well as her friends.    Her hands show committment and concern for the safety of those she loved.

Jesus of Nazareth

Jesus, both Christ and the Son of God

These are the hands that have lasted for all time.  They never signed a bill into law like a president, they never cleaned a house or made a meal for a family – but they touched and healed the sick, set tormented spirits free and healed the blind and raised Lazarus from death.  They are the most important hands of all time and they where on a cross to set us free.

John 3:16

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

Luke 4:40

Now when the sun was setting, all they that had any sick with divers diseases brought them unto him; and he laid his hands on every one of them, and healed them

Mark 8:25

After that he put [his] hands again upon his eyes, and made him look up: and he was restored, and saw every man clearly.

Luke 23:46

And when Jesus had cried with a loud voice, he said, Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit: and having said thus, he gave up the ghost.

 

Submitted by C. LaValley