Amy's Place ... Poetry and Potpourri ... June, 2014

6-1-2014 | JustAmy; St.Louie1; MamaBear; Billie; Meg33, Friends

[Kitty Mittens]

Thank you for the Beautiful Graphics, Pings, Posts, Poem, and Prayer.
(((((Hugs from my Heart, and Love to Everyone!)))))

A Beautiful GratiTuesday To All

[trisham]

(((HUGS))) to you too, Kitty Mittens. What a beautiful picture.

[Kitty Mittens]

Thank you, Dear Trish! I Love your Beautiful Prayer and Graphic in #741.

(((((Blessings!)))))

[trisham]

Thank you so much, Kitty Mittens!

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Hi Kitty!

It is so good to see you!

((((HUGS))))

[luvie]

I'm grateful I have
Someone to lead me.
Happy GratiTuesday!

[left that other site]

Happy Gratituesday!

I am grateful for FR and Amy's Place! :-)

ML/LTOS
(El Kabong)

[luvie]

Me, too! :)

[trisham]

So serene...Thank you for this moment of peace, LUV W.

Happy GratiTuesday!

[newb2012]

Thanks Jane! I wish Emily could receive all your encouragement, love and blessings directly. But I feel she is still too young to do that. I’ll certainly convey the messages.

[newb2012]

I hear you :) But I’d like to see it as double the fun than half the fun .

[newb2012]

Thank you and nice meeting you too. Happy birthday to your granddaughter.

[The Mayor]

Freep mail me to be on or off the Daily Bread ping list

Broken But Beautiful
August 7, 2014

Read: Jeremiah 18:1-6

[The vessel] was marred . . . ; so he made it again into another vessel, as it seemed good to the potter to make. —Jeremiah 18:4

Bible in a Year:
Psalms 70-71; Romans 8:22-39

Recently, my daughter showed me her collection of sea glass. Also known as beach glass, the varied bits of colored glass are sometimes pieces of pottery but often they are pieces of shattered glass bottles. Originally the glass had a purpose, but then it was casually thrown away and became broken.

If the discarded glass ends up in an ocean, its journey is just beginning. As it is relentlessly tossed about by currents and tides, its jagged edges are ground down by the sand and waves and eventually are smoothed away and rounded off. The result is something beautiful. The jewel-like sea glass has found new life and is treasured by collectors and artists.

In a similar way, a broken life can be renewed when it is touched by God’s love and grace. In the Old Testament, we read that when the prophet Jeremiah watched a potter working, he noticed that if an object was marred the potter simply reshaped it (Jer. 18:1-6). God explained that in His hands the people of ancient Israel were like clay, which He would shape as He saw best.

We are never too badly broken for God to reshape. He loves us in spite of our imperfections and past mistakes, and He desires to make us beautiful.

Have Thine own way, Lord! Have Thine own way!
Thou art the Potter, I am the clay;
Mold me and make me after Thy will,
While I am waiting, yielded and still. —Pollard

When melted by trial, we can be fully molded by the Potter.

Insight

Jeremiah is often referred to as the weeping prophet because of the disheartening messages he was often called to deliver to the people of Israel. This title is also appropriate considering the fact that he also wrote the book of Lamentations. In today’s passage, God shows Jeremiah that there is no situation that is not redeemable. No matter the mar, no matter the defect, God can remold and reshape the people of Israel into something useful and beautiful. This is the same message that Paul delivers to the church of Corinth. “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new” (2 Cor. 5:17). God takes the old and broken and fashions it into something new and useful.

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Amen.

Thanks for today’s inspiration!
:-)

[geologist]

Unspeakable GLORY!!! Beyond out ability to create or describe.

GLORY IS OF GOD! HOW CAN ANYONE SAY ... THERE IS NOT GOD!

WONDERS SURROUND US. BROKEN BONES GROW BACK TOGETHER, CUTS HEAL ... AS IF THERE NEVER WAS A CUT THERE.
LIFE EXISTS!!!

PRAISE THE LORD! ALL POWER, GLORY,CREATION IS HIS. HALLELUJAH! AMEN! THANK THEE LORD FOR THY LOVING GRACE, LOVING KINDNESS, GOODNESS ,TENDER MERCIES, FORGIVE US OUR SINS, IN JESUS NAME AMEN.

PRAYERS FOR THE PEACE OF ISRAEL, JERUSALEM, FOR THE BROKEN HEARTED, THE CAPTIVES, THE PERSECUTED BELIEVERS, AND ALL SEEKING TO KNOW AND SERVE THEE LORD. GUARD AND PROTECT THY CHOSEN PEOPLE. AMEN!

[MEG33]

*Happy Warm Fuzzy Wednesday To Amy's Place*

"We love going on a ride!"
Hope your road is smooth today

[trisham]

Happy, happy, happy puppies!

[MEG33]

They make me smile!

(((HUGS)))

[left that other site]

Happy Warm & Fuzzy Wednesday!

And Big ((((((HUGS)))))) to All! :-)

ML/LTOS

[MEG33]

Awww that is SO CUTE!
(((HUGS)))