Lifting Hands
Carol L. Ogden
- Country
- Born 1960, Utah; residing Utah
- Dimensions
- 27 x 36 x 1.5 In.
- Medium
- Mixed media (wood, metallic paint, gold leaf, acrylic, and oil)
When Christ washed Peter’s feet in the last hours of His life, Peter humbly refused the service. Christ responded, “If I wash thee not, thou hast no part with me” (John 13:8). Ogden asks, “Was Christ teaching Peter the other side of lifting, reminding him that we must be humble enough to let others serve? Is allowing others to lift us part of bearing one another’s burdens?” In this piece, hands turn on interlocking gears. Sometimes an individual hand might face down; sometimes that hand might lift up. Both actions heal, hope, help, lift, love, and give grace.
“As we lift and as we allow others to lift us, meshing like well-functioning gears, we all come to ‘the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ’” (Ephesians 4:13).
