Pottery by Maria Martinez from the San Ildefonso Pueblo, New Mexico…
(Jan and I visited Maria several time. Having artists hearts we shared more than pottery and clothes.)
“Trying to mold this life within our hands…”
“But now, O Lord, thou art our Father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand.” Isaiah 64:8 KJV
“Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?” Romans 9:21 KJV
This song below is from these angel voiced sisters, ‘The Walling Jennys’. During LENT we are called to retreat to our desert places either literally or spiritually. There for forty days we are to measure and inspect how our life is being molded. Where are we misshapen, distorted or warped? On the ‘Great Potter’s Wheel’ we may need let Him have control to reshape our misshapen clay. It may mean that He snatches our clay up off of the potter’s wheel, squeeze and shape us in His hands and slap us back on the wheel to be reworked…Which simply mean to ‘let go’ and let the wind of His Spirit carry us from the desert to the mountain tops…
I read in the last day or two that God’s greatest Gift to us may be ‘Free Will.’ That seems counterintuitive. Yet I believe it is True. On one hand Free Will can be our greatest means of distortion. On the other hand it is God’s desire that: we freely Choose JOY!
The Spirit blows where it may…
Yet each day we must begin again…
The stillness and quiet of a snowy woods can always refocus my distorted view of this life…Those snowy places would be a favorite ‘desert place.’