Jeremiah’s potter shows me what I become as I submit my life to the creative and merciful God. Our lives become the pottery that makes possible the emergence of civilization—what Jeremiah called the “people of God,” what Jesus called the “kingdom of God,” what Augustine called the “city of God.” It is no longer every man for himself and the devil take the hindmost. We are containers, “regions of being” in Heiddeger’s words, in which love and salvation and mercy are conserved and shared. Everything is connected and makes sense now—the shape of creation and the shape of salvation, God’s shaping
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