Advent#1: Waiting for the Potter

How we hate to wait! Yet waiting is the theme for the next four Sundays of Advent. The texts we will be going to each week are promises from Isaiah and II Samuel; all calling us to wait. This Sunday the text is from Isaiah 64:1-8 where the prophet proclaims that we are the clay and God is the potter, and our job is to wait for the potter's shaping hands on us. On the communion table is a half-made pot from the hands of Lori Coleman, a potter from the congregation. This pot is not done. It's been wedged, shaped and dried, but not fired nor glazed.
We are not yet done. We are all in various stages on the journey to completion. But the dominant truth for this clay-waiting comes from isaha 64:4 "God works with those who wait." Are you waiting? do you sense God's hands working you, shaping you, forming you, completing you? Just wait!