#potter's wheel

[jonreytrevino]

Spinning some Clay

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[momentsbeforemass]

Try again

There’s no coming back.

You’ve done too much. You’re too far gone.

There’s no way God would ever take you back, much less forgive you.

These are some of the Enemy’s most effective lies when it comes to keeping us away from God after something has gone wrong in our lives.

It kind of doesn’t matter whether was something that we did to ourselves. Something that was done to us. Or something that just happened.

Once we see it this way, once we see ourselves this way, we close ourselves off from God’s mercy, love, and forgiveness.

I think we’re vulnerable to this for a couple of reasons.

First, there are people who claim to be “Christians” who are all too happy to condemn things they don’t like about others. Even though a moment’s thought reveals their over-eagerness to condemn as (1) proof that they’re not really Christians (no matter how much they may think they are) and (2) evidence of what they hate about themselves, there’s something about that abuse of the Faith that stays with us. That leaves a mark.

And we’re protecting our pride. By claiming that we’re too far gone, then we can (falsely) excuse ourselves from the hard work of admitting that we were wrong and trying to change. Because that’s a blow to our egos. That leaves a mark too.

The real problem, of course, is that’s not who God is. That’s not how God works.

In today’s first reading, Jeremiah shows us an image of who God really is. Of how God really works, “I went down to the potter’s house and there he was, working at the wheel. Whenever the object of clay which he was making turned out badly in his hand, he tried again.”

Jeremiah is showing us how God sees us. In God’s eyes, there is no such thing as too far gone. No one is ever beyond God’s mercy, love, and forgiveness.

God never gives up on us. Even when we have. The door of God’s heart is always open.

But make no mistake, God isn’t just willing to try again with you.

God wants to try again with you.

God loves you too much to ever throw you away.

Today’s Readings

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[dramoor]

“But Thou art making me, I thank Thee, sire. What Thou hast done and doest Thou knows’t well. And I will help Thee; gently in Thy fire I will lie burning; on Thy potter’s wheel I will whirl patient, though my brain should reel. Thy grace shall be enough the grief to quell, And growing strength perfect through weakness dire.” ~George MacDonald

“As the clay is in the potter’s hand, so are you in my hand.” ~Jeremiah 18:6

(Image via thriftyfun.com)

[brooklynmuseum]

Large quantities of high-fired stoneware were produced for tombs throughout southern Korea during the Three Kingdoms period. This bell cup was formed using the potter’s wheel and was fired in a tunnel kiln at temperatures greater than 1,000 degrees Celsius. It has a tall, perforated stem that expands into a bell with two clay pellets inside to produce a sound. Spherical bells also appear in ancient Korean bronze artifacts such as horse fittings. 

Posted by Rebekah Pollock Bell Cup. Gaya kingdom, Korea, Three Kingdoms period, 5th–6th century. Stoneware. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Roger Elliot and Mr. and Mrs. Jack Ford in memory of Jean Alexander, 85.114.2 

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Potter's Wheel