But now, O Lord, You are our Father; We are the clay, and You are the potter; And all we are the work of Your hand. Isaiah 64:8 I went with my girls and a friend to see the pottery in Seagrove. We got to watch a potter making several different things from a lump of clay, from a beautiful bowl, to a pie dish, to a vase. It seemed so easy! I could not help but think of the symbolism God uses in the Bible to teach us that we are His creation and He will use us and make us into whatever He fashions. It is not for us to say what our lives will be and how they will turn out. While watching the potter, he would start forming something and my mind would quickly imagine what it was going to be, only to find out he was making something totally different. It is like that in our lives. Sometimes we think we know what God is doing and what our lives will turn out to be like. Then something changes and our lives go in a different direction than we thought. Some times it is hard ...
So Much, So Much, So Much, to be Thankful For Even though my dear friend Princess Ruby is with the Lord, singing and rejoicing, I can still hear her singing, "We have so much, so much, so much, to be thankful for! We have each other, to be thankful for. We have each other to be thankful for. We have each other to be thankful for. We have so much, so much, so much, so much, to be thankful for!” Sometimes we forget that. I know I do. Sometimes, we get our eyes on the problems and circumstances in our life, that are troublesome. Sometimes we get our eyes on the things we want and don't want. Sometimes we get our eyes on the people in our lives, both future and past, and they seem bigger than they should be and have a control over us, because we have put hope in them. Sometimes we get our eyes on our hopes and dreams and how life did not turn out the way we had thought it would. Sometimes we get our eyes on politics and begin to be deceived into thinking...