What “shape” are you in?

When clay bakes and hardens, it can no longer be shaped.

In fact, if you try to force hardened clay to move too much – it will break and shatter. It will crumble.

The potter needs softened clay that is willing to transform in order to create a beautiful work.

What “Shape” Are You In?

Our lives are often “set in stone.” We’ve decided the clay is hardened and nothing will change us. We don’t want to be influenced because our minds are made up. It’s much easier to stick with the life that we’re used to.

Allowing ourselves to open up and change is uncomfortable. When we’re willing to change, we feel too exposed.

I have been at this point before. My life had hardened into what I accepted it as… without even realizing it. I was stuck in my ways and too afraid to admit that I needed change.

Room to Expand

Hardened clay has no room for expansion. Hardened clay takes hits and tenses up even more – rather than pivoting and softening up.

And worst of all, many times the hardened clay is unhappy with its shape.

We are all flawed people. We all have blemishes, imperfections, failures, and misconceptions about ourselves that we carry with us. They show in the shape of our clay. Our shape isn’t perfect, and never will be!

With this, it is best for us to remain malleable. We must remain changeable, and willing to take on a new form to find the shape we’re most useful in.

Changing Shape

It takes time to:

  • Realize you need to change shape
  • Decide you are going to change
  • Know what to shape into next (often the greatest challenge)

The greatest part is – the shape you change into does not have to be your forever shape. You can be reworked again.

You are never confined to one specific shape at all times, but you must soften up to change.

Taking Action

Here are some questions to ponder your shape:

  1. Am I living in the way I want to?
  2. Am I living in a way that aligns with my morals?
  3. Am I making an impact with the gifts I have?
  4. Am I being honest with myself?

What shape have you hardened into?

This kind of transformation relates to any aspect of life. Apply these principles to your personal life, relationships, physical shape, and spiritual journey.

If you make a change in one of these areas of life, you are more prone to carry that change into another area.

The key is to start somewhere.

Don’t let your past, future, or present dictate who you are going to choose to be today. It’s never too late to start.

–Eric P

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