My kids did not get a silver pitcher for a father.

They got a clay pot.

Cracked. Chipped. Missing the handle a polished man keeps. 2 Corinthians 4:7 KJV — earthen vessels. Paul did not say the treasure ends up in fine porcelain. He said clay.

The light my children see in their father's house does not come out of a sealed surface.

It comes out of the breaks.

That is not a consolation prize.

That is the inheritance.