My Sometimes Immovable Hands

I look down and see
Just me
Two little hands
That I direct unplanned

These hands

I can see, can dance
On the keys and make melodies
As praises to You

These hands,

Write words
And draw with the expression of the
Things of my heart

These hands are used

To express this compassion
Through a touch
And Love through contact

But sometimes these hands

Do not work as I plan

These hands shake and stall

To the point that they cannot move at all 

This desire to use my hands

To make the music of Your voice
And write the words of Your song
Was placed in me by You

This cannot be Your plan

These sometimes immovable hands
The expression of my hands
Are contracted and confined

Why must I sacrifice

This that I love and that
Which was given to me
To use for Your glory?

You are glorified by my hands

My desire to speak through these hands

Is Your plan
And this waltz they dance is my Love for You

I speak through my hands

These sometime immovable hands

Why must I be taught through these hands too?
Why must You temporarily take away the movement of my hands?

Yet this is how You speak to me

Through these sometime immovable hands
You gently urge me to listen
When I cannot move my hands

Instead of me playing and focusing on Your melody,

You allow me to listen to the harmony
And smile to the rhythm
When I cannot move my hands

You allocate these immoveable hands

For the purpose of my turn to listen
I need not always be the one to speak
But I also need to listen; to learn

I feel through my hands and comfort those

Who need it, but You allow me to be

Comforted and held by another

When I cannot direct these immovable hands

What I have learned

Through my sometimes immovable hands

Is they are not only my hands

They are Your hands that You gave

Your glory is not only through

What I speak through my hands

Your glory is ever shining

Even when they are immovable

I look down and see

Not just me, not just two little hands

But Your hand moving and purposing

Ever still through my immovable hands