Oh Be Careful Little Hands What You Do

At least some point in my day, almost everyday, I pick my laptop (well, my husband’s old one) and look for, type up, or print something. I flip up that computer screen, click on an icon, and away I go.

We probably all do it – whether it be on our phones, ipads, or computer.

Our little hands start going into spaz mode, either flipping through a screen or typing. But how often do we REALLY think about what our hands are doing? Not only what our hands are doing, but it is effecting the rest of our body? Like our minds and hearts?

I am brought back to a childhood song:
O be careful little eyes what you see
O be careful little eyes what you see
For the Father up above
He’s looking down in love
So, be careful little eyes what you see


O be careful little hands what you do
O be careful little hands what you do
For the Father up above
He’s looking down in love
So, be careful little hands what you do

Do we really think about what our hands are doing? Do we think about that article we click on, that website we are scrolling through, and how that is effecting our self-image, our faith, our relationships, and our hearts?

I was looking through a food magazine the other day and as I was flipping through it, it made me feel like I needed to cook “better” meals. I saw these yummy pictures and thought “I should go get a piece of paper and write down all the ingredients I need for them!” Then when I was done looking at it, I realized that they were recipes that Mazy would NOT like, I had a recipe similar and knew it tasted fantastic, so why would I replace it and spend money that did not really need to be spent? It was just a simple magazine that my hands flipped through.

Another day I was looking at a website and thought oooohhh…if only I decorated my house like that girl did! I started to scroll through the pictures and envied what she had. Then after I closed the screen, walked into another room in our home, I thought to myself, that is NOT what I wanted. It was not even me! I love simplicity. I love having less; not the things that clutter my shelves and take longer to dust. Don’t get me wrong, I have decorations, but not many. It’s just what I like. We would rather choose to spend our money on something else. I am NOT saying decorating a home is wrong because trust me, we choose to spend our money on things that others probably think is weird, like fishing licenses and gas for a boat we refurbished. But it was just a simple scrolling through of a website that made me think I needed to be someone I didn’t even want to be.

I want to go back to that song above: our heavenly Father is watching us. Not in a demeaning way or in such a way that He is waiting to point a finger at us. No, He truly is looking down in LOVE. But I think we often don’t realize that our actions do effect much more than we realize.

O be careful little hands, what you do. When we slip up, remember that God IS looking down in love and give yourself another chance, just like HE does!