Who we are becoming

Lily Cathcart June 08, 2024 4 3

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Isaiah 43: 1-2 (NRSVA)

1 But now thus says the Lord,
    he who created you, O Jacob,
    he who formed you, O Israel:
Do not fear, for I have redeemed you;
    I have called you by name, you are mine.
2 When you pass through the waters, I will be with you;
    and through the rivers, they shall not overwhelm you;
when you walk through fire you shall not be burned,
    and the flame shall not consume you.

'You shall not be burned’ God says to Isaiah in chapter 43, verse two.

If God is our potter and we are clay; we have been brought into a world where we must pass through several fires before we can become who were going to be. And through it all we are held in the potters gentle hands, under the care of the potters attentive eyes.

So, who are you becoming?

Are you delicately glazed in intricate patterns so carefully painted or a show of block colours and bold designs loud and fun to behold?

Are you coated in reactive oxides which will spark and mix into colours no-one has seen for a century?

Are you partly unglazed, feeling closer to the earth and closer to the skin?

Are you pit fired with imprints of encounters and experiences burnt beautifully and wonderfully into you?

Are you decorated with etched sgraffito, the exposed places forming stories and wonder across your surface?

There are so many ways God our potter can help us find our whole and wonderful selves. As you move forward from this week I hope that you find ways to see yourself through the eyes of God your potter and Father. I hope you see how loved and wonderful you are, every mark and every wobble or crack a step of your journey, as part of the earth on its way back to God.

Prayer:

Dear Father God of all of us

We are all so very different and life has treated us so differently

Please help us to see the wonder of ourselves

Please help us to see the wonder of each other and everyone

Thank you that you welcome us all no matter what design or of state of repair

Amen