When reflecting on the Potter and the clay, I think of the raw ingredients God uses to make His masterpiece. If God were to give us the recipe for the clay that he would mold, would it look like this? Clay Recipe: A Batch of Human Emotions Prep Time: A lifetime Infusing Time: Varies by […]

Can anything beautiful come out of brokenness? Does being shattered have to mean the end of hope, or can our fragments be repurposed, offering a chance of new life? In spring 2022 I held in my hands the jagged fragments of a Japanese bowl I’d rescued decades earlier when a shelf of dishes unexpectedly crashed. […]

Have you ever thought about just how many uses there are for a jar? A jar can be used to store food, liquid or solid. It can be used to transport items from one place to another. Jars can be decorations or drinking cups. They can be vessels for candles or to grow plants in. […]

I live in a land where broken pottery abounds. Shards strewn about with the dust and the rocks, the former as commonplace as the latter. When I first came here, then as a simple tourist, I remember excitedly finding a small, broken earthenware piece that could fit in my palm. “Can I keep it?” I […]