All gifts should be offered with palm facing up.

There are many times when what is required by God is your presence, just listening and just being. But there are other intersections, other encounters, where what is appropriate is to say in loving terms something of your own journey. You are picking up a pebble that belongs to your path and offering it to another. It is offered as a gift, never as a weapon. It is offered to share, not to control. It is offered in love; it is not offered to dictate. Everyone experiences such encounters wherein you question which choice must be made. It is here that prayer begins and hope steps back. You pray for insight; you don’t merely hope you do the right thing.

If a pebble from the path is offered with the palm up, the hand reflects the light above it. If the pebble is offered in a fist, it is offered in darkness. All gifts to another must be offered with the palm facing upward, illuminated and warmed by Light. When the palm is up, another also has a choice to look or to accept what is offered, what is lifted up, what is presented with nothing being hidden.