My mug
Uniqueness
Imperfections
Known – to me
Local potter (carrying piece of the land with me when leaving MB)
Symbolic – meaningful (latte!) – rest. Treat. Contentment.
Mug – great analogy for today’s lesson in Jeremiah.
God called Jeremiah out of his comfort zone to a shed:
To hear God’s word
Understand God’s ways
Invite God’s people to the conversation
What a GREAT analogy!
Out of comfort zone - Into someone else’s space
Invitation to new perspectives
To hear God’s word
Understand God’s ways
Invite God’s people to the conversation
Putting ourselves into the narrative: as God desires.
We can be made – moulded – formed – re-formed
Always cared for. Not rushed.
If it goes ‘wrong’ – we’re not thrown aside, but re-made
Whatever step of the process – malleable, dried, set.
Made into what we are meant to be at that moment: doesn’t mean we’re done!
Etched into – added onto – glazed - fired
Imagery of Jeremiah is not about devastation – it’s about creation.
And re-creation.
Sometimes the act of being crushed down is the opportunity for a fresh start
Not struggling against what isn’t working – liberated into re-purposing.
Like clay on a wheel – always being transformed and refined and perfected.
the lesson of the potter’s clay is that God will use what we have, and re-build. God will never take his hand off of us, even when we aren’t wanting to – or willing to – feel it.
We hear this in the psalm – being searched and known from our very beginning; in God’s hands.
In Paul’s appeal for Philemon’s community to re-connect one to the other, to be a fulfillment of grace and Christian love.
And in the Gospel, where Jesus invites a new way to be formed, where we put the love of God above all else – including all our possessions – and allow ourselves to be formed – and reformed – as the disciples we are called to be.
So let us be bold in our lives: submitting to the hands of God that continue to create us: knowing us, loving us, guiding us.
Let us choose to be the clay in the potter’s hands.
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