My squad moved camp sites. My hamock is now set up on a slight slope and rain was in the forecast for the week. So I set my tarp up and decided to dig a drain for the water to collect so that way my area stays nice and dry as I was digging I found something that I wasn’t exactly looking for.
this is georgia red clay
I found clay! So what do you do with clay in the ground you ask ? Well I’ll tell you! You harvest it and start molding it. So that’s exactly what I did; I took it from the earth, crushed it into small pebbles, (because it was very hard almost like rock) added water and started to work it until this came to be .
I made a clay bowl! From the earth to my dinner table. I had so much fun doing this with the Lord it was just me and him doing some ceramics. It dawned on me just how much focus I put into this and how much fun i had doing it. It immediately made me think about when I gave up the knife and how giving it up led me to activities I normally wouldn’t do. I figured I’d see the Lord provide me with an activity of this caliber over seas about 2 and a half months from now not a week later. I’m already seeing the fruit of my surrender! ( This took place from the 14th to the 20th because making the clay , then shaping the bowl, and letting it dry took time ) p.s. I had never done anything like this this was my first time taking clay from the earth and also my first time fireing a clay bowl as well
you are an actual wood/ survivor man! && how cool the fruit of your surrender!
That is really neat! I’m glad you are seeing real fruit from yielding your will to God’s will. I would like to make pots and smash them.. God created the smiths and the pot smashers too. 🙂 I just read it in Isaiah… well not exactly but pretty much. Love you bro!
I love this! Can’t wait to see what else God teaches you! :):)
That’s so cool, Nick! Makes me think of God molding Adam out of the dust of the ground. Man, way more complicated than your clay bowl, of course. (But He’s God and you’re, well, man.) But think about how much time, effort, thought, care, creativity, and focus you put into your bowl. Think about how much it means to you now and how you want to protect it. It doesn’t even touch all that God poured into making Adam and each one of us, never mind the care, adoration, love He has for every single one of us. Pretty neat analogy you’ve got there. Love the way He guided you to spend that time together with Him. Wonder what else you and He might “have up your sleeve” together?
Thanks for sharing the story, the photos, what God is up too.
Love,
~Katie Chandler (Nathan’s Mama)