Lessons from the Clay- perseverance and thanksgiving.

Once again another Monday evening dedicated to pushing and pulling, folding and shaping, pounding and smoothing the clay. Dust is mixed in with the air as the class struggles to make this gooey mass into a masterpiece. 

Over and over I threw down my lump of dirt, again and again it didn't work. 

BAM! - it hardly shifted.

BAM! - it folded wrong 

BAM! BAM! BAM!  Then it would look perfect for just a second, until I attempted picking it up off the table to shape it into a vase, in which case it promptly tore from being too think in one area, and too thick in another. 

If there is one key lesson in pottery it's perseverance. I tried over and over to get that lump of clay into the shape I had imagined. As I threw it repeatedly I got honestly a bit frustrated with it, but it all worked out and in the end, I really like my vase. 

You know what? I wonder how horrible life would be if God got frustrated with us and decided not finish. = no Bueno. He loves us so much and yet so often I can talk to Him in the morning, and before each meal, but after that I disconnect due to the busyness of my day, all the while He is waiting there to form me into His perfect creation. 

Goal - be a thankful lump of dirt. 

And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ. ~ Paul of Tarsus. Philippians 1:6