"DId you know God has a jar?"

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I vacationed on the Outer Banks of North Carolina with my family earlier this year. I went into a pottery business where I discovered Nancy with her wheel spinning, making what she calls a God jar.

A God jar comes in all different sizes from small to large and has a cork top. Buy a God jar—which I did for my wife—and you get a piece of paper that explains it. It says, "For everyday use, as problems arise over which you feel powerless, and you know you must turn them over to a power greater than yourself, write out your problem or your worry and put it in this jar. Take your jar and your problem and literally "turn them over" to God. Put the jar on the shelf because it is no longer in your hands. The problem is now where it belongs, in God’s hands, not yours." (Go to www.NancyWarePottery.com to get yours.)

There’s something very healing and comforting to actually go through the motions of writing down your problem, putting it in the God jar, and "turning it over" to God. Try it the next time a problem overwhelms you, as a part of your listening to life and making a life, not just a living.

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