'The Dice Man Cometh' was part of a series that featured hands. The first version was made 20 years ago . Last year i made a larger version ( i48x115cms) The hand of God, the hand of fate ? inspired by 'The Dice Man', written in Deia ( i think it was written here ? ) Anyway, i never read the book , but heard a lot about the guy who wrote it, Luke Reinhardt .

Father i have not given to myself the life that breathes in me ; the origin of my power to act and to love are discovered in you.
It is not my effort, nor the effort of anyone around me, that initiates this personal life that is mine. Nor can my anxiety add or take anything from its powerful movement. The flow of ming and heart, which is the experience of being alive, is pure gift ; it comes into me, and i receive its mysterious energy, moment by moment. This giftof myself, this torrent of existence, comes pouring into me from you. I am receiving my life from your hands.
Reflecting on this gift, i am aware that there is a strange paradox hidden in it. On the one hand it is a free flow of opportunity and occasion, so that my life is my own to form, out of my aspirations and desires. Life comes from you, but its shape and history is in my hands. Yet, on the other hand, my lfe comes comes to me from you with many outside and inside patterns that are not my creating. You give me the freedom, and at the same time give me the particular circumstances that surround that freedom. It is as though my life were at the same time entirely in your hands, and yet mysteriously given to me. This is almost beyond my comprehension.

What i believe and trust is , that in the freedom and the circumstances that are given to me, your loving, patient , and faithful cocern is working all the time. .My understanding may fail, but i believe that no circumstance is beyond the power of your love for me.. I believe too, that however blindly i may use my freedom, i am never beyond the power of your correcting hand. I not only receive my life from these hands of yours in circumstances and in freedom, i am cared for and guided by these same hands, wherever i am , and in whatever i do.