* UNFINISHED Vessel ..

"LORD, many years ago
You placed your encircling arms around me.
During the ensuing years
You have guided me through tunnels, green pastures,
dark valleys.
But you always brought me back
to the mountains.
Today you have brought me
literally to the mountains of Irian Jaya.

Like the clay to which the potter
continues to apply pressure to form the vessel,
so I feel each day
pressures that are forming me
to Your image.
But that same potter who uses one hand
to apply pressure from without
uses the other hand within the vessel
to keep it from collapsing.

I am ten thousand miles away
from my homeland
but I am still turning
on that potter's wheel
like my fellow Christians.
Lord, mold us, form us, shape us,
that some day we all may be placed
on our Father's pedestal
as finished vessels." CAROL MCDONALD

"But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God"
(2 Corinthians 4: 7).