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50. Does The Clay Question The Potter?
A few years back when I was taking art classes in Philadelphia, I became aware of the way find sculpture and pottery is created. It was an interesting class. As I looked at the projects the students in the sculpture classes were working on, I noticed hat they were all making vessels of one shape or another. One was trying to make a short, fat, squat pot. Another, a tall thin tube like container with a bowl-like bottom. Ten there was one vessel that was to become a pitcher, the kind used to hold and pour about a quart of water.
But what interested me most was that every student potter began with nothing more than a plain lump of brown clay and some rudimentary instructions from the teacher.
The teacher then explained to the students the basics of using the tools and how to handle and mix the clay. But then, he walked away and left the shape and design decisions up to his budding young potters.
Thos student potters seemed to be having a wonderful time! They were talking and joking and laughing as they pushed and shoved the mud-like clay into a variety of rough lumpy shapes. They really seemed to be in control and I also noticed how pliable and yielding the clay was in their hands.
Even though the students had a lot to say, the clay was silent. It just allowed itself, by its flexibility, or mold ability to become whatever the potter had decided it would be from the beginning. In us, God is the potter. We are the clay. God is in control. Knows what He wants us to be, or become - because He knows what He wants our purpose to be in this life. Ou9r responsibility is to do our best to remain always flexible, pliable and workable in His hands and to simply watch as He, in His infinite wisdom, forms each of us into a vessel with beauty and usefulness for all eternity. As the clay that is being worked by our Master Artist, it is not our place to ask: “What are You making?”
By: Terry Weber
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