My Hands Show Me Clarity

Recently I read something about how our words show kindness, our minds show truth, our ears show compassion, our hearts show love, and our hands show clarity. While all of these are true, I find the idea of my hands showing clarity to be most intriguing.

Upon reflection, I realize that MY hands are vital to my everything in life. As a dental hygienist, my hands are my source of identity from a professional standpoint. They allow me to make a living and help people achieve dental health.

Thinking about it, I realize that my hands have brought me clarity for most of my life by being able to write my feelings. As a child, I wrote in journals. Now, as an adult, I have decided to start a blog after I wrote an autobiographical piece for a recent class I took at Elizabethtown College because writing that paper felt less like an assignment and more like therapy or a refreshing cleansing.

Today my hands are showing me a clear path toward discovering that moments matter, life is extraordinary, and discovering how to find extraordinary moments in ordinary days is a gift. Join me as I journey…