Tuesday, March 5, 2013

Fashioned in the Fire


I loved this connection between the trials we face and the art world. I'm always fascinated with God as our Creator and ultimate Artist. Hope you see the connection.

The finest china in the world is burned at least three times, some of it more than three times. Dresden china is always burned three times. Why does it go through that intense fire? Once ought to be enough; twice ought to be enough. No, three times are necessary to burn that china so that the gold and the crimson are brought out more beautiful and then fastened there to stay.
We are fashioned after the same principle in human life. Our trials are burned into us once, twice, thrice; and by God's grace these beautiful colors are there and they are there to stay forever.
--Cortland Myers


from: http://www.crosswalk.com/devotionals/desert/
March 5, 2013

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