Even-Handed

[Mommy Dearest]

Did you know that God is ambidextrous
Working in and through us
With an Even-Handedness
Depending upon what, He is trying to accomplish, in us
There are times, He will move on the left
In complete and utter silence
An invisible but ever-present presence
In our vulnerability and weakness
Then in an instant
With Power and Authority
He switches to His Right, with equal sonority
Proving His dexterity
As a visual manifestation, that He relieves
The pain and suffering
That we, the clay are feeling
As the Hands of The Potter, are molding
A new vessel with two Hands, easily
Sometimes maneuvering and wrestling
Even slapping, from both sides, simultaneously
As if scolding
Firmly forcing, us
Into a much more beautiful form
Now able to perform, its duty
For it has been divinely
Changed, from one Hand to Another
Transformed into faithful sisters and brothers
Left to Right
Darkness to Light
A beloved Child of God, ambidextrously living right
Possessing the completely, balanced Mind of Christ
Switching Hands when necessary, during the Good Fight
Having the strenght to preserve
Overcome our limitations and conquer all fear
Yes, both hands equally equipped
With their own even-handed grip
On of Life

Harry Houdini, Leonardo da Vinci, Robert Baden-Powell, ­Benjamin
Franklin and Johnny Wilkinson were (or are) all ambidextrous, defined as
being able to use both hands with equal ­facility. But a study this
week found that "mixed-handed" ­children are twice as likely to ­suffer
from ­attention problems at school as right-handers, while earlier
­research has associated the ­condition – which is often, but not always
inherited – with autism and dyslexia. Here the ambi­dextrous mother of
two ambi­dextrous daughters relates her experience:

"I'm 64 now, and as long as I can remember I have used both hands for
everything. I had ­perfectly equal strength on both sides; I used to do a
lot of ballet and I was as strong on one leg as the other. But of
course things were very different then. At school I was always just
'cack-handed' and 'stupid'. It was ­awful; you knew you were ­always
going to be in trouble. I was teased all the time. The nuns at the
convent used to force me to write with my left hand held ­behind my
back, and if I didn't they would tie it in that position. I was 20 by
the time I was ­diagnosed as dyslexic; I had never even heard the word
­before. It didn't make things any better, of course, but it did help me
understand myself.

"With my daughters, it wasn't the same. We knew with the elder one when
she was three. Her playgroup said they wanted her assessed. She is
ambidextrous, although she writes mainly with her right hand, and is
very severely dyslexic. But she had some brilliant specialist teachers
and went on to study classics at Oxford. My younger daughter is also
dominant right-handed (most ambidextrous people favor one hand).

"Nobody in this family is ­allowed to use the words 'thick' or 'stupid'.
Being ambidextrous isn't all bad. It can be really useful: I used to
do a lot of sculpting when I was younger and it made that a lot
easier. For lots and lots of tasks it's ­really useful; other
people have to stop because their hand is getting tired. We can just
switch hands."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2010/jan/26/ambidextrous-childr...