On Sunday I happened to catch the end of the Antiques Road Show and saw the slot for the audience to decide out of three items which is basic, better and best. This week the best was a piece of pottery which had some big cracks in it and didn't look like something of value so, apart from one person, the audience decided it was basic.
Yet it turned out to be the most expensive piece and what was truly remarkable was that, without the brokeness, it would have been worth less. For the story behind the piece was remarkable. It was crafted by Sam Haile, regarded as one of the best potters of the 20th century, who was sadly killed in a road accident and the cracked piece was the only surviving piece which was taken from the wreckage of his jeep, and mended by his wife. It was that story, with his gifts, which made this piece so valuable.
And so it is with us, it is our story, with all its brokeness which makes us so valuable. It is often the things we try so hard to hide, that God loves in us and which makes us precious. And I was thinking further , that it is worth remembering that about the people we meet. It may just be the things which irritate, the things which we wish were different, the things which make them broken, just like us, where their true value lies. For God can take our brokeness and reshape it, so that we are re formed.
Yet it turned out to be the most expensive piece and what was truly remarkable was that, without the brokeness, it would have been worth less. For the story behind the piece was remarkable. It was crafted by Sam Haile, regarded as one of the best potters of the 20th century, who was sadly killed in a road accident and the cracked piece was the only surviving piece which was taken from the wreckage of his jeep, and mended by his wife. It was that story, with his gifts, which made this piece so valuable.
And so it is with us, it is our story, with all its brokeness which makes us so valuable. It is often the things we try so hard to hide, that God loves in us and which makes us precious. And I was thinking further , that it is worth remembering that about the people we meet. It may just be the things which irritate, the things which we wish were different, the things which make them broken, just like us, where their true value lies. For God can take our brokeness and reshape it, so that we are re formed.
"This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord: 2 “Go down to the potter’s house, and there I will give you my message.” 3 So I went down to the potter’s house, and I saw him working at the wheel. 4 But the pot he was shaping from the clay was marred in his hands; so the potter formed it into another pot, shaping it as seemed best to him."
Jeremiah 18 vs 1-4
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