Circumstances

We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are. – Max Depree Which raises the question, how do you know what you need to be, and how do you recognize it when/if you achieve it? Old Max need not worry about it thought, for just as you cannot stick your hand in the same river twice, you cannot remain the same you as time lays it hand on you day by day. Circumstances made you, circumstance of birth, circumstance of parents, and circumstance of country and religion of your parents. Circumstances will force you to change to meet the requirements they bring upon you. If you get too cold you will do what is necessary to get warmer. If you get to hot you will do what you can to get cooler. If you lose your job you will look for another. Of your house burns down you will tack action to find a new place to live. Very few of these types of circumstances are under our control, and we must either adapt or die. These are the circumstances O call the Hands of God as they mold us into that which He wishes for us to become. “But who are you, O man, to talk back to God? Shall what is formed say to Him who formed it, “Why did You make me like this?” Does not the potter have the right to make from the same lump of clay one vessel for special occasions and another for common use? What if God, intending to show His wrath and make His power known, bore with great patience the vessels of His wrath, prepared for destruction?…”