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Today's Scripture is suitable to use with Lectio Divina
Stilling: Come into the presence of God and still yourself and dedicate this time to God.
Grace: In this time of anxiety, to see your life more as God sees it. To see with God your deeper self, the person behind all the activity, a person made in God’s image.
Prayer Suggestion: You might like to try and imagine yourself as clay in the hands of the Potter.
Feel the hands of the potter pushing and prodding, stretching and shaping. Notice whether the experience is gentle and calming or do you experience resistance and anger?
What do you hope the potter will make of you?
Jeremiah 18:1-6 HCSB
Jeremiah 18:1-6 HCSB
Parable of the Potter
Parable of the Potter
This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord:
“Go down at once to the potter’s house; there I will reveal My words to you.”
So I went down to the potter’s house, and there he was, working away at the wheel.
But the jar that he was making from the clay became flawed in the potter’s hand, so he made it into another jar, as it seemed right for him to do.
The word of the Lord came to me:
“House of Israel, can I not treat you as this potter treats his clay?”
—this is the Lord’s declaration.
“Just like clay in the potter’s hand,
so are you in My hand, house of Israel.
Conversation: Allow whatever you experience to lead you into a conversation with God, the Potter.
Finish with a final prayer such as the Lord's Prayer/Our Father
Few souls understand what God would accomplish in them if they were to abandon themselves unreservedly to him and if they were to allow his grace to mould them accordingly.”
-St. Ignatius Loyola
A Thought for Today
A Thought for Today
Before time was, God had you in mind.
You are unique and have a special role in human history, a role which only you can fulfil. If that sounds fanciful, a wild fantasy of imagination, then pause.
In fact– every molecule of your being, and there are trillions of them,
are so unique to you, that if you were to leave one of them at the scene of your crime, you can be traced.
We are each a unique manifestation of God and we encounter God in all our relationships and in the way we relate to all creation.
The only way we can encounter God is through our ordinary everyday experiences.
When we take time to look over every day with gratitude we begin to recognise these events as personal gifts from God to us.
Gerry Hughes, Cry of Wonder
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