This is going to seem like a strange transition but if you have four minutes you really need to watch and listen to a video on Renate Hiller, the co-director of the Fiber Craft Studio in Chestnut Ridge, New York. a teacher and practitioner of handwork, and here she speaks of the importance of using our hands in our daily life. It’s lovely to hear her talk about the importance of using our hands and teaching the young to use their hands, especially in a society where they are seldom needed. Hiller says, “My vocation encourages me to find the divine in all that I do and all that I experience. I have been knitting since I was 17 years old & my first project was a beautiful, black New Zealand marino wool sweater for my high school sweetheart. since then knitting has become part of my prayer life. The image of God as divine knitter can be found in various places in scripture and it is an image that fills me with great joy: 'you clothed me together with skin and flesh, and knit me together with bones and sinew...'
And let the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us,
And establish the work of our hands for us;
Yes, establish the work of our hands. Psalm 90:17