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Elizabeth Santos
Member Rara Avis

since 1999-11-08

Posts 9269
Pennsylvania

0 posted 2007-07-16 01:51 AM

I Saw the Hand of Jesus

I saw the hand of Jesus
That was nailed onto a cross
It owed no debt to any man
Yet paid a brutal cost

It was a hand of great benevolence
Denied of all its worth
It was a hand of hallowed flesh
That blessed the sinners of the earth

Yet it was pilfered of it’s healing
It was stripped of all it’s good
It was spiked by nails of metal
It was hammered into wood

It was strapped onto a beam
And it was soiled of earthly mud
It was trembling out of pain
And it was doused in flowing blood

Yet it reached out to the spirit
Of a common lowly thief
It was bleeding of forgiveness
It was dripping of relief

It was once a tiny infant hand
That tenderly unfurled
And from the dankness of a stable
Touched the conscience of the world

It once blessed a sinning woman
And it soothed a child’s head
It cupped the waters of the Jordan
And divided loaves of bread

It was an instrument of mercy
It was gentle, it was kind
It was a compass for the soul
It was a healer of the blind

It was the hand that God anointed
To help mankind to survive
It was slain, then it was saved
It was dead and yet alive

It was ravaged, it was tortured
It was cruelly torn apart
It was pierced by nails of death
And yet it lives to heal my heart

I have seen the hand of Jesus
On a cross at Calvary
It was pointing me toward heaven
Toward that sweet Eternity

Elizabeth Santos

Paul Wilson

Member Elite

since 2002-07-07

Posts 4711
United States

1 posted 2007-07-16 08:56 AM

Elizabeth...Great write, smooth flow and tenderly written from a caring heart...Paul

~~To share my poems with you is to share my heart with you~~
Paul

Marge Tindal

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since 1999-11-06

Posts 42384
Florida's Foreverly Shores

2 posted 2007-07-16 11:25 AM

OhSweetLizzyLady~
What a totally beautiful write, from the heart of a true poetess~

Love you gal~
*Huglets*
~*Marge*~

~*The sound of a kiss is not as strong as that of a cannon, but it's echo endures much longer*~
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I Love Jesus
Member

since 2006-12-12

Posts 216
ar.

3 posted 2007-07-16 07:25 PM

This was wonderful!
God bless you always,
Stacey

Lighthousebob
Member Elite

since 2000-06-14

Posts 4725
California

4 posted 2007-07-20 08:43 PM

Elizabeth,

... and I believe that it led you to write this Beautiful Beautiful poem.

Though very visual at times, I thought that your poem was also a very accurate, informative, and emotional rendition of Jesus and of His most Glorious Hand.

God bless you and thank you for sharing.

-Bob

hunnie_girl

Member Elite

since 2006-06-18

Posts 2567
Canada

5 posted 2007-07-21 06:30 PM

this was absolutly beautiful.
hunnie.

~fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me~

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