Broken Pot

Its only february, and yet the garden is starting to wake up,except the frogs in the small pond, ususally by now the males are croaking for the females to come and mate with them, not this year! Maybe its becasue the garden was blitzed last year by my son-in-law Andy, it was overgrown in some parts,a bit weedy too and because it is very good soil we have many many slugs and snails, so it can be hard to grow things like lettuce,last Autumn i planted many onions, and Garlic, and some over wintering potatoes,which hardly grew, probably because of the extreme rain this year...so it was a painful thing to see a lot of the plants i had nurtured swept away by Andys shovel....some i had just put in too! It reminds me of the dream i had where i was in a field,surounded on all sides by houses,a man said this is all yours,was it new beginings? i suppose the garden before was so overgrown it was becoming too hard for me to handle, and i couldnt really grow what i really wanted to.. so its a new begining, a new oppurtunity,from a fuitless jungle i am soon to have fruit, well broad beans which survived all sorts of nasty chemicals thrown on to them!a lot died but not all! When i first came back to the Lord,the Lord put a picture in my mind of an EarthenWare pot, which had many cracks,almost every part had been broken, and stuck back together,and then it was new! NO CRACKS, a new creation, i knew God was saying that was me,and i was new,I had stuck myself back together when i had tried to fix myself in the world away from Him,but because i forgave the 'breakers' i was restored, stronger than before. No broken vessel can really function any more there will always be leaks...i was the new vessel for Him to pour His love and Healing in!Praise Him!.. He is the Potter, and i am the Clay.and i am not thrown away as the world does,when i threw pots i remember the process before of kneading the Clay, its thrown down roughly,beaten,just like kneading pastry,to get the impurities out,to make it pliable to be used, its not strong enough with out this,there is a lesson in there somewhere for us!not sure quite what yet though!