Our feet stuck in sin
the miry clay
on the potter’s wheel
Calling to the father
to let us enter in
accepting his son
the forgiveness of sin
Our lives sticking
malleable, miry clay
covering the potter’s hands
his prints upon our hearts
October 21, 2009
Jeremiah 18:1-10
&
Psalm 40:2
and Day 67, “Out of the Pit”, in
“Daily Mediations: On Golden Texts of the Bible”,
by Henry Gariepy
http://books.google.com/books?id=9tjVtRt3TUMC&pg=PP1&dq=henry+gariepy&ei=6tqBSqLVDJiQyQT4i9DOCg#v=onepage&q=&f=false
(Raymond A. Foss)
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