Clay in the Hands of God

You are still in the hands of God.

You may feel cracked.

You may feel unfinished.

You may feel like life has pressed you, stretched you, wounded you, and spun you in circles.

But you are still in the hands of God.

Today’s first reading from Jeremiah brings us into the workshop of a potter.

God tells Jeremiah, “Rise up, be off to the potter’s house; there I will give you my message.”

Jeremiah goes down and sees the potter working at the wheel. The clay vessel becomes spoiled in the potter’s hand, so the potter makes it again into another vessel, as he sees fit.

Then the Lord says:

“Like clay in the hand of the potter, so are you in my hand.”