The Potter’s Road Episode 5 – “Ashes and Gold”

 

The Potter’s Road
Episode 5 – “Ashes and Gold”

“Sometimes what looks like loss is the Potter reshaping us for greater glory.”

A month passed since Amos turned down the contract. The family carried on quietly. Orders were slow, but peace filled their small home like a steady flame.

One morning, as dawn brushed gold over the horizon, Ruth burst into the workshop. Her hands trembled. “Amos! Smoke!”

They ran outside. A neighbor’s shed had caught fire — and the wind was driving the flames toward their shop.

“Buckets!” Amos shouted. Damilare and Ruth joined him, but the fire spread too fast. Within minutes, half the workshop was engulfed. The kiln cracked. Clay shattered. Years of labor turned to ash.

When the fire finally died, Amos stood in the ruins, his heart breaking. He sank to his knees, the smell of smoke thick around him.

“Lord,” he whispered, “did I miss Your way?”

Damilare kicked a charred beam in frustration. “Maybe if we’d taken the deal, we’d have been spared this!”

Amos looked up slowly, his eyes wet but calm. “Or maybe this is the deal — Heaven’s way of remolding us.”

That night, he sat beside the wreckage. The stars seemed brighter through the haze of loss. He remembered Job’s words: ‘He knows the way that I take; when He has tested me, I shall come forth as gold.’

The next morning, as the sun rose, Amos began clearing the debris. Damilare joined him silently. In the midst of the ashes, Amos found a small, untouched pot — one he had placed near the kiln before the fire. It was perfectly glazed, stronger than any he’d ever made.

He held it up, light catching its golden sheen. “See this, my son? The fire didn’t destroy it. It refined it.”

Damilare stared, speechless. Something broke in him — not pride, but surrender.

“Baba,” he said softly, “teach me again… to shape clay like Heaven does.”

Amos smiled, weary but glowing. “Then come, my son. The Potter’s wheel is never finished.”

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✨ End of Episode 5 – Ashes and Gold

📖 Scripture Echo:
“He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver.” – Malachi 3:3