Hand Over Hand

When Special Education teachers work with children, especially those who need tremendous amounts of guidance and sensory stimulation, they will often teach tasks by using the “hand over hand” technique. In this process, the teacher puts his or her hands over the student’s hands and directs them to make the letter, or color the picture, or turn the pages of a book. Often students can be resistant and want to do it themselves right away, even though they do not know how.
I cannot help but think that sometimes we need God to do hand over hand with us. We may resist God‘s guidance because we want to do things our own way. Frustrated and weary, we have to surrender to the Master Teacher. We are so blessed that our God is a hands-on God who holds us closely and parents us even when we are supposedly grown up.

O place Your hands on mine, dear Father
Guide me to do Thy holy will
Keep me focused ever
Until Your work in me is through. Amen Doma