{"content":[{"text":"2","bbox":{"left":0.873475,"top":0.045835,"width":0.009143000000000012,"height":0.017016000000000003}},{"text":"babysitter at the time, advised my parents that he needed a nickname, as","bbox":{"left":0.117879,"top":0.091464,"width":0.683374,"height":0.021455000000000002}},{"text":"“Clarence” was an older person’s name, so she suggested calling him “Clay.”","bbox":{"left":0.117879,"top":0.123888,"width":0.707778,"height":0.021455000000000002}},{"text":"Well, the nickname stuck. Growing up with a brother named Clay, I would tease \n him, along with others, and call him “Mud.” Of course it was in a loving sisterly","bbox":{"left":0.117879,"top":0.156312,"width":0.744962,"height":0.053575999999999985}},{"text":"way. I don’t think I was ever envious of his name until I realized that his name is a","bbox":{"left":0.117879,"top":0.220858,"width":0.7603460000000001,"height":0.021455000000000002}},{"text":"humbling reminder of who and whose we are.","bbox":{"left":0.117879,"top":0.253282,"width":0.429082,"height":0.021455000000000002}},{"text":"Jeremiah’s artistic imagination in the potter’s house offers us a powerful image of \n God as a potter. This image of a potter was very tangible in biblical times (just as I","bbox":{"left":0.117879,"top":0.31813,"width":0.7591390000000001,"height":0.053576999999999986}},{"text":"hope it is today). Clay was the material of the common folk. Clay was used to","bbox":{"left":0.117879,"top":0.382676,"width":0.723875,"height":0.021455000000000002}},{"text":"make everything from pitchers to pots to washbasins. Clay, as you can imagine, is","bbox":{"left":0.117879,"top":0.4151,"width":0.7549610000000001,"height":0.021455000000000002}},{"text":"very versatile and can also be very malleable- shaped and re-shaped in various","bbox":{"left":0.117879,"top":0.447524,"width":0.7281070000000001,"height":0.021455000000000002}},{"text":"ways. Imagine, if you will, that you’re at the potter’s house with Jeremiah, and","bbox":{"left":0.117879,"top":0.479949,"width":0.728051,"height":0.021454999999999946}},{"text":"you’re observing the potter at her wheel. She is working on shaping a pot, and \n it’s slowly taking shape; however, it’s not quite right yet. As you watch the potter","bbox":{"left":0.117879,"top":0.512373,"width":0.758522,"height":0.05357600000000007}},{"text":"take the clay and reshape it in her hands, you notice how skillful and gentle she is","bbox":{"left":0.117879,"top":0.576918,"width":0.7557920000000001,"height":0.021455000000000002}},{"text":"at working with the clay.","bbox":{"left":0.117879,"top":0.609343,"width":0.22845699999999997,"height":0.021455000000000002}},{"text":"It is often said that any prophet worth her or his salt","bbox":{"left":0.356712,"top":0.609343,"width":0.4850520000000001,"height":0.021455000000000002}},{"text":"sees the divine image in everything. In the potter, Jeremiah saw a metaphor for","bbox":{"left":0.117879,"top":0.641767,"width":0.743669,"height":0.021455000000000002}},{"text":"Judah’s relationship with God. God being the divine potter and God’s people, \n Judah, being the clay. “Jeremiah saw God at work making a people for God’s","bbox":{"left":0.117879,"top":0.674191,"width":0.721376,"height":0.05357600000000007}},{"text":"glory. Persons created in the image of God. God shapes us for God’s eternal","bbox":{"left":0.117879,"top":0.738736,"width":0.7024590000000001,"height":0.021455000000000002}},{"text":"purposes and God begins right here. The dust out of which we are made and the","bbox":{"left":0.117879,"top":0.771161,"width":0.7469020000000001,"height":0.021455000000000002}},{"text":"image of God into which we are made are one and the same” (Run With The","bbox":{"left":0.117879,"top":0.803585,"width":0.707407,"height":0.021455000000000002}},{"text":"Horses, Eugene Peterson). God speaks in that moment to Jeremiah and says,","bbox":{"left":0.117879,"top":0.836009,"width":0.715659,"height":0.021455000000000002}}],"images_bbox":[],"images_bbox_not_text_overlap":[]}