Today is August 12 and is my beginning experiment in blogging. Today is a perfect day to begin as today we celebrate the birthdays of my daughter in law and my granddaughter. We called them earlier to sing the Happy B'day song to them before we began our busy day here at bible.org.

So far it has been a marvelous day with cool temperatures. I took my 1 mile walk around my neighborhood and waved at several people as they were leaving for work or out walking. One thing I love about our new neighborhood is the friendly people who live here. All stop and wave or wish you a good day or good morning. It is most delightful.

We have French doors in the family room of the home we are renting. This allows us the privilege of seeing the many little birdies that come to cheer us. I purchased a bird feeder for my husband and we have had fun watching them come to feed. We have blue jays, sparrows, a pair of cardinals with their babies and those huge blackbirds. They are so precious to see and watch. We recently took a trip to Upper NY State to see my inlaws where we watched with great enthusiasm the yellow finches. What fun.

Also this a.m. I received a phone call from the dad of our godchildren. He was on his way back to Charlotte. God is at work in his life and he wanted to share it with me. What a blessing. It is neat to have so many wonderful people who take time to share lovely thoughts.

Today in my quiet time ( a time of reflection in God's Word) I read in Jeremiah 18-22. In this section Jeremiah is told to go and watch the potter with his clay as an analogy of how God works with Israel and ultimately with us. We are truly clay in the Potter's Hand. HE is molding us and making us to be conformed to the image of His Son, Jesus. Sometimes God has to rearrange the clay to bring a new dish or bowl out of the clay. The important point is that the clay must be malleable to do that. I noted especially Jer 18:4 "the vessel that he was making of clay was spoiled in the hand of the potter; so he remade it into another vessel as it pleased the potter to make". It brings God great pleasure to remold me and to make me into the vessel for His use. This reminds me of the verses in Rom 9:20 "The thing molded will not say to the molder, "Why did you make me like this," will it? Or does not the potter have a right over the clay, to make from the same lump one vessel for honorable use and another for common use?" How often do I stop and talk to God about "why did you make me like this, when in reality I am to be malleable so that HE can make me into the vessel for His use.
My prayer today is that I be malleable for His use.