Greetings from Austin Street

Happy Monday!  Bruce is still having problems with the sinus infection. Tonight when we sat down to dinner he sang the opening pitch of our table grace. It was several tones lower than usual. We sang anyway, but laughed. Geni also took him out to our storage unit tonight while I studied and wrote a short paper.  He has become a little cold natured. He went to find winter jackets. This cold natured thing is a new development. He also said that most of his therapies went well except his education therapy.  He did not think he did well today. I think he has set a high standard for himself and when he does not hit the mark he becomes upset with himself.  I reassured him that everyone has a bad class sometimes and tomorrow will be back to normal.  God is good and love wins!

Lord, I am ready and willing for you to shape me and use me. In Jesus name. Amen

One of my favorite songs is The Potter’s Hand. If I am granted God’s grace for ordination this song will be a congregational hymn that will be sung.  “…crafted into Your perfect plan.”  The story from Jeremiah shares that Jeremiah went to the potter’s shed and watched. After watching the potter make pot after perfect pot one of the pots did not turn out as he desired. So the potter did not discard the pot. He took the still soft clay and plied it into a shapeless lump. He returned it to the wheel and began again; shaping and molding the clay into the desired shape until it was beautiful, perfect and ready for the potter’s use.

God loves us so very much that we are remade daily into His image and being prepared for God’s highest use. We are not throw away clay. We are the creation God chose to be in relationship and shower us with extravagant love.  When we let God lead us we are the clay in His hands being recreated and crafted into His perfect plan to be used as a vessel in His heart.

“He used that clay to make another pot the way he wanted it to be.”

Jeremiah 18: 4

 Take joy in this amazing journey. Trust God daily. Wear comfortable shoes and get some sleep.  Love you all, Bruce and Gaylene