Potter’s Clay

…we can give them up for a better way—the divine way. We must learn to “do nothing gracefully” so that the Lord, our Love, will be free to stretch our hearts and our minds to embrace infinity. If we can believe that this is really what is happening, then we can be graceful “without anxiety”—as John says. We can learn to be at home in the dark because we are sure, in faith,

that the potter is truly shaping the clay, even though the clay sees nothing of what is happening. Then our dryness is no longer desolation because we are not anxious, fearful, troubled by the dark. In fact, we come to love the dark because we realize that the Light is very close and that experience of darkness is the only sure way to the eternal vision we so greatly desire. Nor would we rush the potter, since we begin to realize that the vessel he is shaping is intended to last for eternity. In fact, we find the need to pray more, not to experience His presence now. but to give Him all the time we can to shape the vessel into which He will delight to pour His love.

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