The Potter's Hand

All look to fulfill their lives, to know that when they die someone will stand above a head stone and say this person existed. Not everyone looks to be famous or to make a lot of money or even to be popular, just to have someone in this world know they were here. To leave a finger print once their life is through.

How do you fulfill your life? How do you leave a finger print? To be molded like clay by the world, tossed and turned in the winds of life's ever changing patterns. To be pulled one way and then another. One may win the lotto or lose their job, or win the olympics or fall and never walk again. How can we control the way this world mold's us? The answer is easy we can't.

Our real question should be why do we think it's the world? If we look at the world and all it has to offer we should be scared that it would be the one to mold us into who we are. In reality it is God who is the Potter. I would give anything to be the clay in His gentle loving and knowing hands, and the great thing I can rest assured in is that I am in His hands. I will leave a finger print in this world because He placed me here for a reason and with this reason I have life, I have a reason to live.

This past month the world has tried to mold me into it's shape, into it hard course way of life, however over and over I have told myself it is not for the world to decide if I am fragile, or if i should be short or tall or if I should be thrown away and to start over again. It is for God to pick me up and recondition me to be the tool he wishes me to be.

My most common thoughts when it comes to the almighty Potter is one that it is not up to us to fix the cracks or worry about why they are there, it is up to us to be willing to go through the kilm of refinery to be healed. Some times those cracks are deep and water leaks out, but maybe that water is meant to help fill the thirst of someone else, or to cool and ease the pain of the wilting flowers beneath who have been praying for rain? Our cracks are there for a reason and we are not to feel that we are going to be thrown aside because we are inperfect.

However we should not let the cracks continue to bother us either? We should seek God for healing and in the end place ourselves over and over again in "The Potter's Hand"