Need help with ASL Translation

[Stuart Thiessen]

Hi, Valerie. I thought I would take a stab at this but ran into an 
interesting spelling situation.

The signs for heaven in the dictionary don't match what I tend to use. 
So I tried to add the sign I have always used. Interestingly, this sign 
for heaven has the left hand slightly above the right hand, then the 
right hand moves in a half circle forward and out and back then both 
hands move to the sides. You can see how I attempted to spell that in 
heaven_3.

The question ... how do I show that the right hand moves alone first 
when it does the half circle, but then the right and left move together 
when they move to the side?

L.I.F.E,

Stuart

On Jul 12, 2006, at 17:32, Valerie Sutton wrote:

> SignWriting List
> July 12, 2006
>
> Dear SW List Members!
> I need your help. I do not know how to sign the sentence below, which 
> is supposed to go on a tombstone...Is there someone on the List who 
> could write this in SignWriting in American Sign Language for us?
>
> Please help me!
>
> How  do we write this in ASL?
>
> > IN GOD WE TRUST. YOU ARE IN HEAVEN NOW. WE RESPECT AND LOVE YOU. YOU 
> WILL REST IN PEACE FOREVER.
>
> I am sorry, Stephen, I am not an interpreter and I am not sure how to 
> sign IN GOD WE TRUST in American Sign Language...
>
> Val ;-)
>
> -----------
>
> Katz, Steven (MED US) wrote:
> > Val,
> >
> > I finally got hold of the person making this grave stone as his 
> e-mail had changed. He is trying to write the following:
> >
> > IN GOD WE TRUST. YOU ARE IN HEAVEN NOW. WE RESPECT AND LOVE YOU. YOU 
> WILL REST IN PEACE FOREVER.
> >
> > If you could put this into sign writing it would be greatly 
> appreciated.
> >
> > Thank you!
> >
> > Steven Katz
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Valerie Sutton [mailto:sutton at signwriting.org]
> > Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2006 3:00 PM
> > To: Katz, Steven (MED US)
> > Subject: Re: Written sign language alphabet
> >
> >
> >> I am a sign language interpreter with deaf parents. I am also 
> involved with a burial society for a deaf organization, Brooklyn 
> Hebrew Society for the Deaf. One of our members recently lost his wife 
> and asked to have written sign language on the gravestone. He has 
> written the symbols but we are having difficulty getting the shapes 
> correct. Do have any resources on how the written alphabet should look 
> or can you point me to a good resource for this?
> >>
> >> Thank you very much.
> >>
> >> Steven Katz
> >> 718-435-6300 x1326
>