November 21, 2024

Last night at 3 am I was internally saying the Lord’s Prayer and waiting to get back to sleep.  I felt that Spirit was saying to me that God shapes each person’s life like a potter shaping a pot, smoothing out our past experiences into the uniqueness of the pot.  If we are tuned in spiritually, any painful or toxic situations we have endured become part of the clay like iron oxide streaks enhancing its beauty. If we have experienced trauma, there may be pock marks in the clay or air bubbles in the glaze, and these too increase the unique beauty of the pot.  Or it may appear like the Japanese method of mending ceramicware with gold lacquer called Kintsugi, with the result that the pot is more beautiful than ever.  Trust that God’s will heals and shapes us well and whole.