The Former Things

And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.
Revelation 21:4


Crying over spilled milk is not something that I often do, but today is an exception….This morning around 7am as I returned from my morning run, my loving, caring, adoring, clumsy and wonderful son Tyler comes to me and starts going on about how he was putting up dishes and blah blah blah (yes I tuned out for minute) and I broke your green bowl. I tune back in at “green bowl”, I say to the young fellow , “what green bowl”, he says, “you know, the green bowl”, at this point my heart begins to beat rapidly, and my mouth was getting all watery because I am literally, turning green, because I am about to be sick!! I rushed down stairs to find my lovely green bowl in green pieces. Ahh, I'm sick just thinking about it. I know you’re saying to yourself, “it’s a bowl, get over it”. Gasp, how dare you, say that about my bowl, it wasn’t just a bowl, it was MYYYYYYYY Bowl…ah ah…ok, I'm calm, so here is the story behind the bowl.











This bowl was passed down to me with a few other pieces (yes it was a “piece”) from my aunt who passed away about 11yrs ago. When I saw it I immediately fell in love with it!! Green is my favorite color and I love pretty dishes so hey it was perfect! Recently I decided that I REALLY liked the bowl so I decided to turn it over and see who makes it so I could see if they had other pieces, well to my surprise, the company who made it was Fire King and they produced glassware similar to Pyrex type dishes back in the 1940s (I’m sure my bowl was produced then:)). They no longer make these dishes, but can find them at antique shops, collector websites, eBay, and if you’re real lucky, you may be able to snag a couple pieces from the Goodwill, or a garage sale, but the point is, they are kind of hard to just come by.
I do have a couple of other pieces from Fire King, they are some little saucers, but none compare to my Jadeite Bowl…I recently saw on one of my favorite websites, The Pioneer Women, has a whole set of the Jadeite collections, I drooled looking at her pictures. I am now on a mission to get my own set, at a reasonable price and pace of course, but today, let’s all just take a moment of silence, for the one that was lost!!

(Fire King Saucers)

While writing this blog, I am reminded of how wonderful our Father is, isn’t he just awesome!!! I mean just how he RESTORES his people. How he RESTORES us physically, mentally and emotionally!! How when we are BROKEN, in mind, in body and in spirit, he is right there ready, willing and able to heal and to RESTORE us back to our rightful position. Just like no temporary fix will do for me and this bowl (glue), there is no substitute for being restored back to the Father. Drugs, sex, alcohol, none of it can do what Christ can, sure, it may hold you up for a little while but at some point, that temporary glue will begin to erode, from all the things that have been bearing down on it, then next thing you know some things begin to seep through the cracks, and you’re no longer holding up! But it you go to CHRIST his fix won’t fail; you will be made WHOLE no flaws. No one will be able to see the cracks, the chips, scars, the bruises that you have suffered. He is the MASTER RESTORER!!



Anybody ever been restored!!!