The Potter

You know, it's so easy to get caught up in labels and stereotypes. It's so easy to feel down on your confidence and inadequate. But you know what else is easy? Praying, picking up your Bible, and letting God lead you to what you need to see. We all have a purpose. We're all here to complete the body of Christ. You can't have one thing without something else. We're here to complete the master plan! And we're all pottery...

"Who in the world do you think you are to second-guess God? Do you for one moment suppose any of us knows enough to call God into question? Clay doesn't talk back to the fingers that mold it, saying, "Why did you shape me like this?" Isn't it obvious that a potter has a perfect right to shape one lump of clay into a vase for holding flowers and another into a pot for cooking beans? If God needs one style of pottery especially designed to show his angry displeasure and another style carefully crafted to show his glorious goodness, isn't that all right?" -Romans 9:20-33 (The Message)

It's like, How could I ever not feel good enough? I was crafted for this! For what I'm doing right now. For writing this blog! For wearing these clothes. For listening to this music. For feeling these feeling in my heart. For having the passions that I do. For loving the things I love. For being the aunt that I am, the daughter, the sister, the friend. I'm here on this earth to be me. The me that God intended me to be. I have a job here that no one else can do, because it's mine, and even if someone else attempted to do my job, it would not get done, because it would be them doing it and not me, which would change everything. Why would I want to be someone else or even just a different version of me? Sure, I should strive to be the best Taylor Alissa Weir that I can, but I should not want to change myself, only improve myself. It's so obvious, really. This is all for God, by God. Why would anything else matter?

"God proves to be good to the man who passionately waits, to the woman who diligently seeks. It's a good thing to quietly hope, quietly hope for help from God." -Lamentations 3:25,26 (The Message)