Be Clay
" You are the Potter, I am the Clay! " Like me, you may have heard this phrase multiple times and even said it yourself. Whether you are in the church or not, this has become a popular phrase; that eventually in some cases became a cliché. However, has it crossed your mind what it really means to say " I am the Clay"?When you hear this phrase, you may imagine the positions of a “Potter” and “Clay” in this relationship. Understanding that the “Potter” makes and molds the clay to the desired finished product. You understand that the “Potter” knows the process needed to obtain the product's intended purpose. You may even imagine a “Potter” molding clay on the Potter’s wheel into a bowl. It is only possible for the clay to become a bowl if it cooperates with the Potter. The clay has to understand that its duty is only to be molded. The “Potter's” purpose will never come to fruition if the “clay” is non-cooperative.
Here on the “Be Clay” podcast, we will talk about how to accept and endure the duty of clay, as we allow the Potter to perform the same. We will explore the positions of “The Potter” and “The Clay” and the dynamics of each role. In the past years, I have learned and am still learning the roles of “The Potter” and “The Clay”. I have come to the realization that I was not fulfilling the role of “The Clay”. Instead of allowing “ The Potter” to mold me, I was fighting back and trying to mold myself. You can imagine what a mess I made! If you can relate, know you are not alone. “You are the Potter, and I am the Clay” will not be just something you say, but you will learn and understand your role and “ Be Clay”
Be Clay
Choose To Be Thankful
Ever feel like your life is spinning, but not in a way that’s shaping you? I open up about the moment a simple hymn line—“Thou art the Potter and I am the clay”—turned into a vivid picture of me fighting the wheel instead of trusting the hands that hold me. That image birthed the heartbeat of this show: be clay. Not the planner, not the potter—just willing, soft, and ready to be formed.
From there, we get honest about gratitude. Not the polite list, but the kind that springs from realizing how many second chances we don’t deserve and yet somehow receive. I talk about choosing gratitude as a daily practice, especially in December, and how that choice changes our tone, our pace, and our response to stress. We explore the difference between knowing of God and truly knowing God—time, conversation, and a relationship that naturally shifts what we do and don’t do. If grace met me when I was unlovable by my own standards, then my posture toward others must change. That’s where love stops being theory and starts being practice.
If you’re ready to trade control for surrender, anxiety for gratitude, and hesitation for action, this conversation will meet you right where you are and nudge you forward.
Subscribe, share this with someone who needs a hopeful push, and leave a review to tell me what you’re choosing—gratitude, surrender, or that first step to unbury a gift. What will you pick today?
You are Loved!
Not just a little, but greatly
Not just today, but forever
Not just by some,
But by the ONE who created you in His Love
And HE's Not The ONLY One
We Love You Unconditionally
&
There's nothing you can do to change it!!!!
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Welcome, welcome, welcome. Thanks for tuning in to another episode of B Clay. I appreciate you. I thank you for listening to me today. You could be listening to anyone else, but you're here, and I appreciate that. So um today is going to be a quick episode, just a quick one. And yes, I know how to do a quick one, so we're going to do a quick episode. But before we get into the episode, I just want to recap on some things. Number one, um, I will have to upload, um, re-upload my old episodes soon. I am planning on beginning to upload these episodes this no, we're not gonna do it this weekend. We're gonna start next weekend. I will be re-uploading one each week until it's all fully uploaded. And two was anything. Oh, so I will be after this episode, we will be uploading every Wednesday. Okay, so every Wednesday I will upload each new episode. So with all that, with all that being said, here is my episode. Okay, so just before I really get into my episode, which this really does um, this really do I should say it makes sense for my episode. So just a recap for under all the new people, welcome for what is B clay? What is what's B Clay? Bleak here at B Clay. You are basically with me and following me on my journey as I learned how to just be clay and where did that derive from? So when during COVID, one time during my time of prayer in the morning, I was praying and really seeking God on some things, and there's some things that I needed really need him to do, uh that I needed him to really, I needed to break through. Okay, and I was crying out to him, and as I was crying out to him during my prayer, I began to sing, Have Thy No Way, O Lord. So Have Thy No Way is one of the uh, I guess him prayer songs that I have been singing all my life because you know I grew up in church, and it's been one of my favorite songs to sing, and so one of the lines in Have Thine No Way, uh, Lord, is Thou art the Potter and I am the clay. And as I approached that line and began to sing that line, uh, I couldn't even finish it because immediately God showed me as clay, but he showed me as me as clay on the potter's wheel, but I wasn't being still, I was moving around, I was just all over the place, making a whole mess because as he's trying to, and he showed me as clay and his hands trying to mow me, but as he's trying to mow me because I'm up here moving all around, I'm making a mess because all over the ceilings and everything else, because I'm not being still and I'm not being clay, and so immediately I began to cry and bawl out and just you know, first thank God, okay, for allowing me to see what I was, but then I began to bawl and cry because and told myself, Alicia, you just have to be clay. Understanding that although I have said sung that song in itself many times, I have said that multiple times that I am clay and he is the potter. However, I have not really been doing the job of clay or actually be clay, and the role of clay is to just be molded. That's it. You're not supposed to do anything else, you're not supposed to tell the potter, like, hey, you know what, this is what I want to do, this I want to be. No, mm-mm. You are just you are your the role of you is to just to be molded into whatever the potter wants to mold you into. So I will get, I will probably do a re I mean I will re-upload the first episode then when I go into that, but I think I want to go into more into uh being clay in the future episodes. So it does tie into the episode of today that I'm doing today. So we are in December, right? Happy December. It went by so fast, and uh at first I wasn't going to do like a typical, you know, Thanksgiving episode of like giving thanks, but recently, which is the Sunday before Thanksgiving, as we was approaching Thanksgiving, I was just in, you know, in my as I was getting ready for church, I was just in my prayer mode. And in my prayer, I started the prayer this morning, that morning, not this morning, but that morning, saying to the Lord, you know, here I am coming to your throne with thanksgiving. And as I said that, I realized I'm I don't do that often. I don't just come to him with complete thanksgiving and just just thanking him, and not just thanking him for you know, life, health, and strength, the clothes of my back, materialistic things. Not that I'm not thankful for those things or that's something wrong to be thankful for, but just being thankful to just to know him, right? To that he allow series of events for me to know him. Um, in my previous episode that I told you that last year, this actually this time last year, I really began to I realized how much he honored our relationship from the beginning. The relationship that we had, that we had, that me and him had in the beginning of my life, the first few years of my life, and how just honoring that and the relationship that he knew that we was going to have at this moment, that he did not, he was so patient with me, should I say, you know, and and the between in the between time because people have died for less. Okay, people have was did not get thousands of chances. I can't even count how many chances he gave him because it was too many, but I knew definitely know it was way more than one. And some only received one chance, and that is it. And the fact that he was so patient with me, so I mean, he just long suffering is not even like you can't even define long suffering um that he has been with me, and just to know him is a privilege, just to know him. Now, you for those that know, I've been in church all my life, and I'm not talking about religion, I'm talking about a relationship. There's a difference, right? And I'm not here to really I'm not here to really persuade anyone to believe in God and all those things. That is something that you can make your own, you know, choice for that. But for me, I have done too much, been through too much, not to have a relationship with him. Okay, not to have a relationship because I also as as I was just thanking God for just the privilege just to know him, that he allows me to know him, to get to know him in every aspect, right? To be to know him as a mind regular, as a healer, to know him as my joy, to know him as my peace. And the list really can go on because he is really my everything, he is my constant. Just to know him is it's just amazing. Just to know him. See, everybody doesn't want to know him. Some people just want to know of him. Most people just don't want to know of God, they don't really want to know him. In order to know him, you actually have to spend time with him, right? There are people that know that know me that if you ask them some questions, um, what's her favorite color, they can tell you what type of food she likes, they can tell you. Uh, but there's some people that say, I think that she likes this, but that's because they only know of me. They haven't spent time with me, they haven't had no conversations with me, so they don't know me. They know of me through somebody else, or they saw me, they might even know my name. A lot of times, people just don't know my name. They will say, Oh, they know of me. Oh, that's the girl that always smiling or always happy or whatever the case may be. They know my characteristics, but they don't actually know my name, right? So, but when you know someone, you spend time with them, you have you communicate with them, right? And you understand you begin to understand their likes and dislikes, and you there's certain things that you would do and don't do because of the nature of your relationship once you know someone, and that's why I say that some people don't want to know God, they want to just know of him, and so there, but it's a big difference. And I just was thinking God that he wants to know me, and he wants me to know him. Do you know how many people and many times do we there are people that want to know us, and we choose whether or not we want them to know us or not, right? Um, there's multiple times where someone won't know me, and and it depends on the nature of the relationship. They want to know me in in certain aspects, and I choose not for them to want to know me in that aspect, right? We have a choice. We have a choice when it comes to our relationships with people, with family, friends, right? What type of relationship that we want. We may not can choose, we cannot choose our mother and our father and our family members, however, we can choose what type of relationship we want with them. When we want a close relationship with them, or we just want a distant relationship. That's a choice. And so in this, I realize that I need to choose to thank God more often, to be really uh, like just just to be more grateful and not take advantage of the relationship that he chose to have with me and to continue to choose him regardless of anything else. And so it just really, it was just a thought that came to me. It's just a thought that came. And I, you know, again, it's just something I really think like, wow God, I really thank you for wanting to have a relationship with me. Because it's a privilege, it's a privilege to have a relationship with you. Everyone does understand that what the privilege is. You know, remember when we were kids? See, my kids don't even understand privileges to be exactly, and we knew the under the word of privilege. Because remember, if you didn't do certain things, if you didn't do your chores, then you would, you know, your privileges were taken away, right? So we had an understanding of what privileges were because we understand that privileges are not something that I have to have, it's something that I would like to have, but I'm not obligated and it's not mandatory for me to have. So it's a privilege for me to have a relationship with them. And so that it was just it's just something I wanted to share about choosing to be thankful and not and just be thankful, period, you know, because that's a choice, it's a choice to be thankful, it's a choice to whether you allow things to stress you out, it's a choice whether you allow things to frustrate you, all that's a choice, because you can't always choose your circumstances necessarily when things happen. Unfortunate things may happen, however, we can choose how we respond to it, and I have decided, I have decided to just choose to be more thankful of every single thing that happens, no matter what. As we are in the last month of this year, okay, um I'm actually excited. I am, I'm very excited for, I think I'm more excited than I have ever been in my whole entire life. I don't know why, but I am. I'm excited for the things that have already taken place. Like me, guess what, y'all? I finally finished a class. Yay! I finally finished a class, you guys. Oh my goodness. I finally finished one. I don't remember if I actually put that in my last episode because I don't know if I did it by time. I don't know, but I finally finished a class, okay? So we are on the way to get this thing moving and popping because we got to get this thing together. It's it's about time for him to get the return on his investment. But I finally finished a class and we're we're we're moving. We're moving. Uh, there are some things that I am, you know, put into play because God has it's finally it's finally time for him to get the return on his investment, all that he has put inside of me, you know, too much is given, much is required. And I have been burying my talents, my gifts, my skill, whatever you want to call it, it's been buried for too long, and it's time to get the shovel and you know, unbury it and let it be utilized. So I am done, you guys. See, I told you this was going to be a long episode, and I, you know, you're probably like, yeah, whatever, because uh, at least you do a short one. That's funny, but no, um, I just want to get up on hand and also make sure that I upload each week. And this, yeah, this episode was was only to say, let's let's choose to be thankful for everything. More than anything, just choose that he wants to have a relationship with me. There are many people who have died for less who didn't get as many chances as I did. Uh their grace had ran out. And I just thankful that my grace then ran out. Uh, and he allowed me to have a relationship. It's it's awesome. Um, like I said, I have been through too much, I have done too much to not be in a relationship with him. Um, I don't care what other people say, how you feel, that's that's not my business. That's between you and him. But as far as for me, like I said, I've been through too much and I've done too much. And the way that I treat people, some people feel as though, you know, at least yours are so nice, you're so kind. I'm not nice. I'm not nice at all. Um, I'm kind, yes, because that is one of fruit of spirit. Look like I'm a daddy, but I'm not very nice. And the fact that if God can love me, then I can love anybody. Because to be honest, to be honest, by my own standards, my own standards without God, we're not talking about the God standards, we're talking about outside. If I if if by my own standards of what I may deemed to be unlovable, I that means I should really include myself because I'm unlovable as well. You're right. So I realize that. I realize that I have realized that. And if he can love me, if he can love me, then who am I to say that someone else cannot be loved? And that's just pretty much what it is. I'm not looking for anyone to understand that. I'm not looking for anyone to even acknowledge the fact that that I'm loving them regardless of whether they're unlovable. That's it doesn't matter. I'm not even really looking for people to acknowledge the fact that and and say thank you. It doesn't matter. No matter what they do, no matter what it is, I love any and every single vibe because if he can love me, I can love anybody. Who am I to say someone is unlovable? Because I might as well put myself in that in that category too, because technically so am I. So, with all that being said, I am done. And until the next episode, I will again I will be up re-uploading all my old episodes beginning next Saturday. Next Saturday, I will begin to re-upload. And if you want to listen to these episodes now, you can listen to them on YouTube. The link for the YouTube should be in the description. But it should be in the description, no matter what you're listening to, whether you listen to an Apple, Spotify, uh whatever platform that you're listening to, you should be able to see the link for the YouTube, and you can go back and listen to it from there. Up until then, I will catch you guys in the next episode. Bye. You are the product, so I am a big clay, big clay.