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Transformation, with Mildred
My late mother used to be an incredible potter, an art she had learnt from her mother-in-law, my grandmother.
When I was young, I was always enchanted by the way both women would mould wet clay into beautiful clay pots and tea sets, not to mention special artefacts like animal or bird miniatures.
They would harden the pieces through an intensive heating process. My mother, however, during her learning phase, would make some mistakes in moulding which she would notice after heating and on polishing the piece.
I’d wait to see how she would rectify it but she always shook her head, casting it aside, “There is no more rectifying a complete product,” she would say. “I have to make another one,” and she would start a new piece.
You may have heard how the pottery process is likened to our own making; how we are clay and God is our Potter.
But then, unlike my mother and grandmother’s handiwork, God’s moulding of us is not a once-off thing. We were not cast in stone and neither are we cemented fast on our respective levels in life.
Ours is a gradual and unending development process. The Potter is ever working on us because He meant for us to evolve — to become better than we are mentally, emotionally, spiritually and physically so that we align with
His special design and plan, which is for our greatest good.
Throughout life, we all continue to go through this moulding process and it is irrespective of religious beliefs. We go through lessons and shifts that we do not necessarily expect, understand or like. But such are the ways of our Potter, to put us through growth and transformative processes to become magnificent artefacts He can be so proud of.
Our hearts can be broken, our bodies may weaken and we may even lose our most treasured possessions. Napoleon Hill aptly captured it, “With every experience of temporary defeat, and every failure, and every form of adversity also comes with it the seed of an equivalent benefit.”
Nothing that ever happens to you is futile.
The products my mother and grandmother made never suggested on their own what they had to look like. Those objects were simply at the mercy of the potters.
But we are privileged; we are not objects and neither are we separate from our Potter.
One great author once said, “Here is the one great truth: whoever you are, or whatever it is that you do, when you really want something, it is because that desire originated in the soul of the universe. It’s your mission on earth.”
Whatever dream you have, realise that it is centred on the heart of divinity itself. As you work on it, you have a very powerful and mighty partner.
He is mainly concerned with moulding you so that you become the ideal person capable of achieving that dream. It is said a good dream will stretch and dislocate you. Be willing to be uncomfortable and inconvenienced by your dream. Such is the moulding process.
Is your dream important enough for you to let go of your comfort zone? Is it important enough that you can accept your weaknesses, and work towards transforming them?
You did not go through a heating process, are you, therefore, flexible and soft enough to mould yourself through building on new skills?
Are you, at the same time, allowing your Co-Moulder to work on you, through releasing any excessive baggage you might be having within? Most of us are negative emotional bundles, holding ourselves hostage to them. That is same as heating ourselves up! May you soften back and let go of the painful past along with its hurts, frustrations and regrets.
If we are to become the magnificent products that the Mighty Sculptor is known to produce, fulfilling our purpose and achieving our dreams, let us allow ourselves to be moulded through whatever way necessary.
Evolve and transform mentally, emotionally and spiritually. The result will be one, which you never even imagined in our wildest dreams. Such is the Potter’s promise to us.
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