Jars of Clay

Posted on December 18, 2013 
Filed under Australian dioceses

Bishop Peter Chiswell“Clay speaks the truth that we who are made in the image of God are also made of the dust of the ground. Clay speaks of being in the hands of the master potter who is shaping us to His own ends. It speaks – as it does here – of the homely and ordinary; of the everyday domestic vessels whose myriad shards are scattered across every field in the Middle East.

Why has God made His servants of this clay? The reason is clear: to show that the all-surpassing power is from God and not from us.”

– Dean of Armidale, Stephen Williams, delivered this address at the funeral of Bishop Peter Chiswell last week, and Peter’s son Graeme gave the Eulogy.