21 years.

The past year has been… quite something. There were ups and downs that I never would have seen coming, and yet, looking back fills me with such a joy and – maybe more accurately – peace.

I’m learning, growing, changing, and that’s just fine by me! Jeremiah 18 says “This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord: ‘Go down to the potter’s house, and there I will give you my message.’ So I went down to the potter’s house and I saw him working at the wheel. But the pot he was shaping from the clay was marred in his hands; so the potter formed in into another pot, shaping it as seemed best to him. Then the word of the Lord came to me: ‘O house of Israel, can I not do with you as this potter does?’ declares the Lord. ‘Like clay in the hand of the potter, so are you in my hand, O house of Israel.’”.

That’s me. I’m the “house of Israel.” God, the potter, is shaping me ‘as seem(s) best to him’.

I like that. And yes, it’s sometimes painful realizing that you don’t know everything (and sometimes it feels like I don’t know anything), but that’s alright – God knows. For this next year of life, with all of the excitement and change, I’m going to continue to trust that God knows exactly what my finished “pot of clay” will look like – and I’m sure it will be quite wonderful.