I've always thought earthen vessel as clay pot, allegorical, today I realize we are the earthen vessel even cracked pots, designed to be filled with heavenly contents. Foyinstance, God spoke heavens and earth from cosmos He then created Adam and Eve from that dust/clay. We are made of stardust and moon dreams indeed!
I may be a cracked pot, but like the Japanese Kintsugi art of mending damaged porcelain with gold, He has done the same with my broken heart, my broken spirit and He is the golden Healing.
"We have this treasure in earthen vessels, jars of clay, so that surpassing greatness will be of God and not from ourselves." 2Corinthians4:7