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Message of the Day – Hands

March 22, 2013 By: Cal Skinner Category: Addie Louise Skinner, Addie Skinner, Addie Watling-Skinner, Easter, First United Methodist Church of Crystal Lake, Good Friday, Message of the Day, Prayer, Praying Hands

My Grandmother Addie Watling-Skinner had a glass replication of Durer’s praying hands on her coffee table. My cousin has them now.

Nothing expensive, but they probably had more significance than I realized as a youth.

Today is a day that some Christian church’s hold prayer vigils. My First United Methodist Church has done this for several years and is doing again this year tonight through Easter.  (If you have prayers for the vigil, drop them off at the church–corner of West Crystal Lake and Dole Avenues–anytime before or during the vigil.)

That brings me to the Message of the Day–my grandmother’s praying hands, but rendered in chocolate, rather than in glass.

Albrecht Durer's Praying Hands rendered in chocolate.

Albrecht Durer’s Praying Hands rendered in chocolate.

Message of the Day – A Bumper Sticker

November 22, 2012 By: Cal Skinner Category: Bumper Sticker, email, God, Knee, Kneel, Message of the Day, Prayer, Thanksgiving

This is a bumper sticker that I found in a Disney World parking lot.

It seems appropriate for Thanksgiving, our least commercial holiday.

This bumper sticker says, “God answers knee-mail :-) .”

Message of the Day – A Bumper Sticker

July 29, 2012 By: Cal Skinner Category: Bumper Sticker, Fish, Message of the Day, Prayer

This bumper sticker was found near Richmond.

“Life is short. Pray hard.” That’s the message above the Christian fish symbol.