“What more can anyone ask of life than he was finger or thumb among other fingers, and that the hand he had was the hand of God?”

Ten Fingers for God describes extraordinary servanthood-the life of Dr. Paul Brand, a medical doctor, whose life and work have been a blessing to countless thousands of leprosy victims on five continents. Through surgeries (over 3,000 in India alone), the pioneering research he has conducted and inspired, and his empathy for the poor and forsaken, Dr. Brand has achieved fame in the medical world and the countries of the heart worldwide.

Dr. Brand’s professional life has centered on perhaps “the most problematic aspect of creation, the existence of pain.” His conviction that the function of pain in the human body is a disguised blessing to the human race because “God designed the human body so that it is able to survive because of pain,” brought his together with Philip Yancey with whom he co-authored the best selling books Fearfully and Wonderfully Made and In His Image.

As a surgeon, teacher, and environmentalist, Dr. Brand “has chosen the middle way of balancing the material and the mystical, the prophetic and the pragmatic.” His spirit of self-sacrifice and humility can best be distilled by his sureness that ‘what a pity that a man has only one life to spend, one pair of feet, two hands, ten hngersl”