Vocation
and
The Work of Our Hands
A Reflection through Images
A TIME TO REFLECT ON THE WORK
OF OUR HANDS…
Bless our hands...
Often just appendages at the end of our arms...
workers doing their job without appreciation...looked
at, yet not really seen.
These instruments of love have done mundane tasks,
yet also create beauty.
They reach out, touch, stroke, scrub, lift, grasp,
gesture and guide.
These hands, our hands, gifts of great importance,
Blessing be on them and in them as we continue to
work with them.
May the fruits of their labour be good.
Contemplate the work of your hands.
What is the nature of your personal vocation at
______________School?
Reflect on the following images and note which ones
say something to you about your vocation.
We are God’s Hands…..
In pairs share an image which said something
to you about your vocation:
What does the image say about you and
the way God works through you as a
person in this school?
Name:
Christ has no Body now but yours
No hands, no feet on earth but yours
Yours are the eyes through which he looks
Compassion on the world
Yours are the feet with which he walks
To do good
Yours are the hands
with which he blesses
All the world.
All:
Ours are the hands
Ours are the feet
Ours are the eyes
We are his body
Planning in the
Kingdom
Name:
It helps, now and then,
to step back
and take the long view.
The kingdom is not only
beyond our efforts
It is even beyond our
vision.
All:
Lord, we commit ourselves
to the work of our hands.
Name:
We accomplish in our
lifetime
Only a fraction of the
magnificent enterprise
that is God’s work
Nothing we do is
complete,
which is another way of
saying that the
Kingdom always lies
beyond us.
All:
Lord, we commit ourselves
to the work of our hands.
Name:
No Statement says all that could be
said.
No prayer fully expresses our faith
No confession brings perfection
No pastoral visit brings wholeness
No program accomplishes
all of the Church’s mission
No set of goals and
objectives includes
everything.
All:
Lord, we commit ourselves
to the work of our hands.
Name :
This is what we are about.
We plant the seeds that one
day will grow.
We water seeds already
planted
Knowing that they hold
future promise.
We lay foundations that will
need further development
We provide yeast that
produces effects far
beyond our capabilities.
All: Lord, we commit ourselves to the work of our
hands.
Name:
We cannot do everything
and there is a sense of liberation in
realising that
This enables us to do
something, and to do it very well
It may be incomplete
but it is a beginning,
A step along the way,
An opportunity for
the Lord’s grace to
enter and do the
rest.
All:
Lord, we commit
ourselves to the
work of our hands.
Name:
We may never see the end results,
but that is the difference between
the master builder and the worker.
All:
We are workers,
Not master builders,
Ministers,
Not messiahs.
We are prophets of a
future not our own.
Ours are the hands
Ours are the feet
Ours are the eyes
We are his body.
Amen.