Have you ever taken a pen and written on your hand, perhaps something important that you needed to remember? This was a practice I once used quite often, perhaps I still should as I seem to forget more as I get older. When I was a teenager, it may have been a phone number, or something needed from the grocery store, maybe even a boyโs name! When I was even younger it was my 7 times table. I have always struggled with that one! How frustrating it was when the last two digits of that phone number washed off and I couldnโt remember them! Iโve even written bible verses on my hand to memorise them, that worked quite well.
In 2016 there was a Talking Hands Campaign where thousands of people wrote I Can or We Can on the palm of their hands to raise awareness on World Cancer Day, and then there was the Black Dot Campaign where those struggling with domestic abuse drew a small black dot on their palm.
Why the palm of the hand? ๐ง๐ต๐ฎ๐ ๐๐ฎ๐ ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐บ๐ถ๐ป๐ฑ๐ฒ๐ฟ ๐ถ๐ ๐ฎ๐น๐๐ฎ๐๐ ๐ฏ๐ฒ๐ณ๐ผ๐ฟ๐ฒ ๐๐ผ๐, ๐ป๐ฒ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ ๐ณ๐ผ๐ฟ๐ด๐ผ๐๐๐ฒ๐ป. Every time you lift your hand you recall what it is you need to do, who you need to pray for, or you memorise that verse a little more. It is always in front of your face.
One of the most exquisite verses can be found in Isaiah 49:16 โ๐บ๐๐, ๐ฐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐; ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐.โ Our Gracious God has engraved your name upon His hand. It is not written in pen that it may fade or wash off, no, this engraved means cut out, carved like the laws being cut into stone!
Your name is forever before the eyes of the LORD and will be there for all eternity.
Sometimes itโs easy for us to think that God has forgotten about us, to feel as though we canโt hear His voice or see His hand at work in our lives. But the fact remains, your name is carved into the Creatorโs hand, you are never forgotten, never forsaken, never left alone. 
Claire's Prayer 