Grief is like a long valley, a winding valley where any bend may reveal a totally new landscape. CS Lewis
At our final grief share meeting, we had a discussion around this new normal they were talking about in the video. A couple of individuals could not wrap their minds around the new normal when they hurt so bad from their loss.
Then there was a holy spirit moment when one of our participants with a heart for giving brought out this clay pitcher and sat it at the center of the table. He said after his wife passed away his daughter, who was a talented pottery maker asked her dad if she could take the statue of a man and woman off of the mantle to create a new use for it. She broke this statue and placed it into a kiln and shaped the now formless clay on a potters wheel to create the clay pitcher out of what once was a clay decoration.
He held up this pitcher and said the new normal is taking the pitcher and pouring blessings into other's lives as they go through their own pain and suffering. We were taught that evening how peace and pain co-exist
The pain we will sometimes feel is because of the memories we had when our loved ones were alive. This clay pitcher had a new purpose of helping others to navigate life's undesirable paths. God understood clearly man's need for a Savior after countless attempts to speak through the minor and major prophets of old. He sent angels to Mary and Joseph to tell them to not be afraid when young Mary would bear the salvation of the world with a baby boy who would be blessed with wisdom beyond the wisdom of the highest educated Rabbi. God would call the unlikeliness men and women to spread God's message.
Many of them were witness to his return to life after he rose from the dead and many witnessed Christ ascending into heaven, but not before the promise that Christ would give the power of the holy spirit into the lives of those who believe Him.
Like the clay pitcher that was re-purposed out of a statue of a man and woman, the new normal after Jesus's ascension was God's gift of the holy spirit to encourage you through life's hardest moments and be a blessing so others will see Jesus through you.
In other words. Jesus had to die on the cross of calvary so that you can experience a repurposed life of pouring encouragement and blessings into a world that is suffering.
Then there was a holy spirit moment when one of our participants with a heart for giving brought out this clay pitcher and sat it at the center of the table. He said after his wife passed away his daughter, who was a talented pottery maker asked her dad if she could take the statue of a man and woman off of the mantle to create a new use for it. She broke this statue and placed it into a kiln and shaped the now formless clay on a potters wheel to create the clay pitcher out of what once was a clay decoration.
He held up this pitcher and said the new normal is taking the pitcher and pouring blessings into other's lives as they go through their own pain and suffering. We were taught that evening how peace and pain co-exist
The pain we will sometimes feel is because of the memories we had when our loved ones were alive. This clay pitcher had a new purpose of helping others to navigate life's undesirable paths. God understood clearly man's need for a Savior after countless attempts to speak through the minor and major prophets of old. He sent angels to Mary and Joseph to tell them to not be afraid when young Mary would bear the salvation of the world with a baby boy who would be blessed with wisdom beyond the wisdom of the highest educated Rabbi. God would call the unlikeliness men and women to spread God's message.
Many of them were witness to his return to life after he rose from the dead and many witnessed Christ ascending into heaven, but not before the promise that Christ would give the power of the holy spirit into the lives of those who believe Him.
Like the clay pitcher that was re-purposed out of a statue of a man and woman, the new normal after Jesus's ascension was God's gift of the holy spirit to encourage you through life's hardest moments and be a blessing so others will see Jesus through you.
In other words. Jesus had to die on the cross of calvary so that you can experience a repurposed life of pouring encouragement and blessings into a world that is suffering.
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