Series: Kentucky CFO 1964

Thelma Lee uses a set of ordinary clay pots to teach Jeremiah’s vision of the potter and the marred vessel, admitting a recent burst of temper as proof that even seasoned believers can still be marred in the potter’s hand. A toy soldier found in a cereal box recalls raising her sons. She teaches that God gives good gifts only as we grow ready for them, in this talk to the Kentucky CFO in 1964.

Surveying Job, Joseph, Peter, and Paul, Thelma Lee tells campers at the 1964 Kentucky CFO that God has faith in ordinary, wavering people because “his seed remaineth in us.” She recalls her own story of driving confidently forty miles in the wrong direction, a picture of sincerity without guidance.