Artisans
Removing what blocks.
The sculptor begins with a block, and removes what is not beauty.
The gardener enters their plot, and removes the weeds that impede growth.
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The day is filled with choice, Lord, let me remove what blocks me from you. Let me tend to my life, that it may become simple and grow in beauty.
Finally, Lord, let me be willing that you work on me in the same way. My life, my days, are unshaped clay. Make of me what you would will.
– from the mountain
Consider:
Am I ready to be remade?
Reading:
“I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.” — Michelangelo
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“Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.” — William Morris
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“But now, O Lord, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand.” — Isaiah 64:8 KJV
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