I often wonder..."What would happen... If I looked at my experiences, as watching the Potter taking a chunk of raw clay mold it, and form it, into a vessel of pure beauty…"
Lead is turned to gold... Misfortune changes to fortune... Disease leads to a greater healing. Many times we are healthier after a disease than we were before it.
Would my life change if I accepted my problem as a solution? Knowing that whatever the problem, (be it psychological or physical, financial, professional, interpersonal, etc.), when properly looked at leads to a greater outcome then before.
"Think good, positively and it will be good…” This too is for the good, the best... No matter what happens, accept it as Divine Providence, even the mistakes are necessary." These thoughts, this attitude will change my life!
As in this ancient Chinese story about a farmer whose only horse ran away. His neighbor commented, "That's too bad." To which the farmer replied, "You can't be sure." When the horse returned followed by twelve wild mares the neighbor said, "That's terrific." To which the farmer replied, "Don't speak too soon." Then, when the farmer's son broke his leg trying to break the wild horses, the neighbor intoned, "That's a pity." "Wait and see," counseled the farmer. And then the army came through the village and didn't draft the son into a war from which few returned, because he had a broken leg.
I love this image of seeing “life” as a house. Try it, and imagine your emotions as objects in the house. You can see some things are out of place: Maybe you find a bed in the kitchen (Now why is that there?); you can't prepare a meal on it and it's hard to sleep with everyone coming and going. The frying pan doesn't make sense in the bedroom either. Remember these are emotions and they are valid; they just might be out of place. The denied anger needs a place, instead of inappropriately being blamed on others. Disease needs a home, or at least a room in the house.
So a little remodeling needs to be done, build a room with a beautiful interior and filled with Healing Light, the light of Jesus, in the house, let these negative emotions live there until Jesus and you can clean them up a bit (like the misplaced anger, maybe forgiveness is needed and the’ dis-ease’ is comforted) and then invite them to the front of the house. They are apart of your experiences, the threads in the tapestry of your life and when healed will create a stronger beautiful vessel.
Isaiah 64:8
Yet, O Lord, You are our Father; we are the clay, and You our Potter, and we all are the work of Your hand.
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