Word and Weekdays

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12/07/2025

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Jeremiah 18:1-6
The Lord gave another message to Jeremiah. He said, “Go down to the potter’s shop, and I will speak to you there.”

*you hear God clearly when you’re at the place He told you to go*

So I did as he told me and found the potter working at his wheel. But the jar he was making did not turn out as he had hoped, so he crushed it into a lump of clay again and started over.

*transitions will always feel like death to the versions of you that can’t go with you to where God is calling you*

Then the Lord gave me this message: “O Israel, can I not do to you as this potter has done to his clay? As the clay is in the potter’s hand, so are you in my hand.

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Process of Pottery:

1. Preparing the clay

*looking for air bubbles*
“If i dont get this out now, when it faces the fire it will crack”

2. Shaping/forming the clay

*molding/cutting*
“Keep in mind it’s the potter cutting you, not the devil”

3. Drying the clay

“Time for everything the potter did to take root”

*Only at this point, handles can be added*
“Now you can handle it, because you allowed the potter to shape you”

4. Bisque firing to the clay

*fire makes the clay become ceramic*
“Once it comes out of the fire, its strong enough to handle oil”

5. Glaze/oiling the clay

*Oil & glaze are added to apply color and texture so the pot can be set apart from other clay pots*
“The oil is needed so this clay pot looks different than every other clay pot in the store. But with out the cutting, shaping, and fire you couldn’t handle the oil”

6. Glaze firing

*Then the pot is placed back in the fire. Why? So the oil and the glaze can become one*

Now go back and read Jeremiah 18 again!!!!!!

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12/03/2025

Tonight, my daughter fell asleep on my chest.

I was breathing slowly… with full, relaxed breaths.

But for some reason, I listened more closely than usual and I heard it.

In… out… in… out.
My breathing sounded exactly like ocean waves.

For a moment I wondered if I was imagining it.

So I recorded it… not for anyone else, I just needed to know.

And there it was again: that soft rhythm, like water rolling toward the shore and gliding back out to sea.

And instantly my mind went to Genesis 1:2:
“And the Spirit of God hovered over the face of the waters.”

What hit me next felt like revelation…

The Hebrew word for Spirit here is ruach: a word that means the Spirit, the breath, and the wind of God.

Not three separate ideas, but one reality: God’s breath moving.

So Genesis 1:2 isn’t just saying that “the Spirit was there.”

Instead it’s saying:
The breath of God was moving over the waters.

The wind of God was stirring creation.

And the presence of God was pulsing with life.

Then the verb for “hovered” is merachefet: a gentle, rhythmic motion.

Like a bird fluttering over her young.

Like waves rising and retreating.

Like breath filling a body and releasing again.

The first motion in Scripture is not speech, not light, and is certainly not random.

The first motion in scripture is rhythm.

Breath.
Spirit.
Ruach.
Life.

So as I sat there with my daughter resting on me, I realized something:

My own breath is a tiny echo of that moment.

The same breath that hovered over the waters in Genesis is the same breath that gave life to Adam in Genesis 2:7… and it’s the same breath that sustains me right now.

Every inhale is borrowed breath.
Every exhale is evidence that the Spirit is still hovering.

Still sustaining.
Still creating life where there was none.

And the waves?
They move because He set their rhythm.

They follow His boundaries.

Their motion is a physical sermon about His consistency.
As their compliance should teach us how to follow.

The ocean is stronger than us.

Wilder than us.

More powerful, more ancient, and more relentless than us.

Yet it obeys God effortlessly.

A wave has no pride.
No argument.
No resistance.

God speaks: and the sea, this impossible and untamable force… yields.

Imagine if we did the same.

Imagine the strength we would walk in if our soul submitted to God with the same rhythm and surrender that the waves submit to His voice.

The sea is not weak because it obeys; it is powerful because it obeys.

Breath is the same.

Both rise and fall according to His design.

I think we forget that breathing itself is worship.

Not dramatic.
Not loud.
Just steady.
Just faithful.
Just… ruach.

Like the ocean.
Like the Spirit.
Like the God who hovered over the waters and still hovers over us.

No wonder sleeping on someone’s chest always feels like the ultimate definition of home.

Whether a parent as a child
or a spouse as an adult.

We crave the sound of our Creator;
And He was kind enough to bestow that gift to us in a way that can be heard at any time of day.

Whether in the gentleness of a breath, or in the strength of the consistent waves.

— Word & Weekdays