"You see this pottery? It had to be formed and fired, painted and re-fired, for it to turn out as beautiful and colorful and useful as it is now. There are days when I feel like that's where I am. In the fire, burning up. That's when I have to remind myself that I'm in the kiln, being handmade into some useful new vessel for the Lord."

~Deborah Bedford

The Hair Ribbons

"But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us. We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed."

~2 Corinthians 4:7-9