Who Is Your Potter?

Each day we get shaped.  Our circumstances affect us.  Our relationships certainly do as well.  So do a lot of little things that weave through our lives and whose messages we see and hear and feel.  We are marked by them.  

Also significant is the attitude we have, and whom or what we allow to make the impressions on us, for we don't have to be thrown on the wheel of any old potter who comes along.  Whose thinking do we embrace?  What do we spend our time and money and effort doing?  What do we value?  What do we cultivate?

In some moments (we usually call them “crisis”) we find ourselves in the heat, and just like with clay, those moments can set something firm into our lives. Typically the heat will harden something in us, and it will most likely be a settling in of what we’ve allowed to have the most influence.  We normally can’t predict when some of the most intense fires will be upon us, which makes it seem all the more important that we try to practice daily choosing with care who and what we allow to have such an imprint on us and what kind of thinking is dominating our minds.   We do have some choice, after all, as to how useful and beautiful the shape of our life will be.