We all have a destiny, we just have to find it
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I want to tell you a parable of a teacup. If you observe this picture, the elegance of the flowers and designs, the way it glistens. It's beautiful, but it didn't originally look like this. With muddy hands, an artist works and molds together a wet mass of clay until they have shaped a teacup. Although still ugly and wet, the artist leaves it out to dry until it turns into this pasty white. With a paintbrush and paints, he paints the elegant designs, but they look faded and dusty looking. Then the cup is placed in an oven of scolding heat, too much heat, and it will crack it, too little heat, and it won't refine it. After a long time in scolding heat, the teacup is taken out and turns into this intricate porcelain dish we are all familiar with. The reason why I explain the process of a teacup is because we represent this teacup. We may be beautiful and nice as we are molded into who we are, but it's not until we are placed into the refiners fire when we become this beautiful refined individual. Perhaps right now there may be a refiners fire in your life, but Heavenly Father will never put too much heat on you, but you can't be refined unless you have the right amount. This heat may be scolding, but with an end date in mind, you are taken out as the most refined you were ever. I know this analogy is simple, but it defines something we all must go through, but it's only there to refine us and beautify us. Another analogy of a teacup, is, in China, when a teacup is broken, they seal it together with gold. Although you can still see the cracks of the teacup, it gives this beautiful intricate teacup with lines of gold through it's body. We may go through a refiners fire, and even if we break, we are put together by gold, refining us into yet another beautiful teacup. So this week, think of the teacup. If you want to, make it an object lesson. You can go the old fashioned way and go to a ceramics place and mold and shape your own, or you can just go to the little painting shops like Color Me Mine or other local places where it is already molded, you just need to paint it and they make one for you. If you do this, just think of how whatever your molding or painting, this will enter into that scolding heat and when you return to pick it up and take it home, it will be this glossy rich colored masterpiece. Our destiny defined in a teacup.
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Kaylee CasuttI have been writing for over eight years now and have been both building to publish my first book and serve as a service-missionary of The Church Of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Everything I write will contribute to the journey destined I have been striving to find and build. Archives
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