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\"05-28-15<\/a><\/p>\n

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Me:\u00a0 Prodigal, What are you doing!<\/p>\n

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Prodigal:\u00a0 Taking a closer look at this piece of art work made out of bottles.<\/p>\n

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Me:\u00a0 I have not seen anything like this before.<\/p>\n

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Prodigal:\u00a0 Yeah and that is why I wanted a closer look.<\/p>\n

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Me:\u00a0 I have story about art work that you might enjoy.<\/p>\n

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Judith Couchman talks about her art in her house.<\/p>\n

A beautiful work of art sits in my upstairs bedroom, the kind that beckons attention, evokes emotion, and lingers in the mind.\u00a0 It is an exquisite piece of pottery that woos and teases passerby.\u00a0 Half vase because of its small pedestal bottom and half pot due to its wide girth and mouth, this creation embodies the word unique.<\/strong><\/p>\n

A narrow-eyed pragmatist might examine this creation and announce, “What good is it?\u00a0 It doesn’t do anything.”\u00a0 And yes, I could fill the pot with pine cones for tennis balls or jewelry or whatever–just to assign it something to do–but that would detract from its intrinsic beauty.\u00a0 All things considered, I value that pottery’s form more than its function.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is how God feels about us.\u00a0 We are His beautiful and thoughtful creation.\u00a0 Like one-of-a-kind pottery, above all else He treasures our innate worth.\u00a0 We are immensely significant, and our value does not depend on anything we do, think, say, feel, earn, inherit or look like.\u00a0 It is because we exist as God’s creation.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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A beautiful work of art is sitting and reading this right now.\u00a0 This piece of art is you!\u00a0 God was there when you were made.\u00a0 He formed you in His own image.\u00a0 He has been with you this whole time.\u00a0 Just stop with all the reasons you cannot be beautiful.\u00a0 God sees that you are!<\/p>\n

I need God’s grace as much as you do.\u00a0 Just because grace is needed doesn’t mean that you are not wonderfully made.\u00a0 I look and all I see is beauty and I see how significant you are to God.\u00a0 I see how God uses you in so many people’s lives.\u00a0 I value how you are made and who you are.\u00a0 This is something that I respect in you and is present even now.<\/p>\n

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I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I have continued my faithfulness to you.<\/p>\n

Jeremiah 31:3<\/p>\n

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Jennifer Van Allen<\/p>\n

www.theprodigalpig.com<\/p>\n

www.faithincounseling.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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