Okay, so maybe it has been more than a year but in my defense, I have a few others - ones that reflect the hipster-wannabe that my alter ego would like to entertain. I was just wondering if this was still on the radar and if so, what should I do with it?
Since know one knows me on the interwebz here as a blogger, maybe this can my "thinking" blog. Which brings me to today's thought.
While driving mindlessly around my city (meaning I just was out and about with no planned destination, not that I was out of my mind while driving) I was listening to the radio. No, I do not have satellite radio so I am at the mercy of whatever is available. Good thing I am an NPR nerd. But I digress.
On this particular radio show, the speaker quoted a Leonard Cohen's song with the lyrics:
"There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in."
As I drove, things that floated in and out of my mind resembled the traffic of random cars I could see (I happened to be driving in the evening going home traffic full of people who were going to begin their NYE weekend by hitting happy hour or getting ready for the Gator Bowl game that will be here this weekend). Random and off the wall things were bulleting in and around my brain:
I wish I had taken a pottery class,
Jars of Clay - they have a few songs I like but I can't remember which ones at the moment,
What good does the light do getting into a crack?
Wonder what I could grow in a cracked pot?
Then it hit me.... I am a freaking cracked pot! The light has been going in and out of me for years yet it doesn't hit the thing inside me that starts the spark that allows that same kind of light to EXIT the vessel for all the world to see.
I have been a Christian for a long while and although have not been a great prayer or reader of the bible, I do seek podcasts of Gospel-driven pastors and put these on my iPod as I walk (literally, not figuratively) and I am an active behind the scenes participant at my church that has gotten off to a running start. This Cracked Pot idea got me thinking not only in words but in picture form. Imagine this video - something on an Indiana Jones motif:
There is a huge clay pot/vessel (about the size of me) that has been in the dark for so long that it doesn't even seem to be annoyed by the fact it is not being used for good. It has been hidden for so long, no one even remembers seeing it. But then there is an unearthing of darkness and a sliver of light is able to get to the vessel. That light is coming from a surveyor (or savior if you will) who knows that something exists on this land yet can't see it just yet due to the darkness that surrounds it, yet He knows it is there and He is wanting to find it.
A light makes its way through the darkness and there in this cavern of darkness and numbness is the clay vessel with cracks throughout. Light is allowed through those cracks. The surveyor realizes there is something inside the vessel. It is a very unique object that if heated to just the right temperature, will ignite a flame that burns for an inordinate amount of time. And that flame allows others to see as well.
So the surveyor digs to open the light from the sun to shine down on it. As the sun moves across this opening, it manages to cast shadows on the inside of the vessel, but not ignite the precious object found inside. It is not the right angle of the sun to hit the vessel. It is not the vessels time to create light - not yet, but in time. Give it time.
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