SERVING HANDS, INC.
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Serving Hands donated $500 to the Watchmen group for their community garden for water and an irrigation system.
Lord, make me an instrument of Thy Peace;
Where there is hatred, let me sow Love;
Where there is injury, Pardon;
Where there is doubt, Faith;
Where there is despair, Hope;
Where there is darkness, Light;
Where there is sadness, Joy.
Saint Francis of Assisi

THANKS TO ALL WHO MEDITATE FOR THE PEACE AND HARMONY OF OUR WORLD!

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Serving Hands donated $5000 to the Faith and Grace Garden to acquire a trailer to transport their tractor to help other community gardens throughout Central Iowa.
Serving Hands help Veterans with acquiring shopping carts, clothes and other personal items.
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Serving Hands sent a child to summer camp


LOOKING FOR FEEDBACK

Please let us know what you think of our website and if you would be interested in special projects like helping Meals from the Heartland in March of 2023.
You can submit using the contact forms on the home or contact page or send an email to servinghandsinciowa@gmail.com or call Kathy at (515) 371-4393
Looking forward to  hearing from you.
UPCOMING OPPORTUNITIES TO SERVE
We would like to continue to support Hawthorn Hill with their on-going needs. Please check out their urgent needs at ​www.hawthorn-hill.org/get-involved/wish-list/
​It is in giving that we receive. Blessings to you!

Jan's Letter

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Sieger Koder - Manna from Heaven
The artwork above depicts the Israelites feasting on the manna from heaven during their 40yr. journey through the wilderness. They were tired and hungry, desperate and complaining, and unsure of the outcome of the journey. It felt as though their world was ‘falling to pieces’. And yet, God was holding their ‘falling to pieces’ gently and tenderly all along providing the sustenance they needed to survive.
On those days when I feel as though our own world is falling apart on so many levels, I am reminded of this story from Exodus and recently came across this quote from Anne Lamott;


“When a lot of things start going wrong all at once, it is to protect something big and lovely that is trying to get itself born, …. And this something needs for you to be distracted so that it can be born as perfectly as possible.”


In the Exodus, something very big and lovely was trying to be born – moving on to the ‘promised’ land. Maybe this is what is happening today in our world as well. In this ‘falling’, there are God’s hands safely and tenderly holding it all, while in the meantime, something big and lovely is waiting to be born. Instead of despairing, maybe we just need to wait. Trust and wait.





Let the entire earth be blessed with Divine Light,
Divine Love, and Divine Power.
Let the whole earth be blessed with peace,
order, spirituality, abundance, and prosperity.
Let every person, every being be blessed with happiness,
good health, spirituality, prosperity,
and abundance." MCKS