Polymer Wisom
Dec. 14th, 2005 02:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
divaleaIn a discussion at Polymer Clay Central on "wasting" polymer clay, you'll find experienced clayers sort cane "failures" by color for re-use and make hell boxes of their scraps. Hell boxes take the "mud", and resulting neutral gray is used for "bead guts", figure bases, covering forms and vessels before laying on other clays or cane slices.
Lay minister Craftpirana wrote a devotional for very low income seniors using the metaphor of "waste clay":
"I picture God doing the same thing for us. He takes us through the Waste Clay Days, lays out all our efforts and failures and hopes and dreams on the table that didn't work out. Some of these efforts can be reshaped into works of beauty. Some of our work and dark times make a muddy mix, but a great foundation for something of beauty. In the end, nothing is wasted at all. God shows His creativity as he takes the messes we have made, the messes others have made for us, the mistakes, and turns them into a vessel of beauty and strength, something to cheer someone else or provide a drink of cool water for a parched soul-- or ourselves."
The whole devotional is here. I like it because it is hopeful. All the stumbling, frustration and sadness can be made into something worth having and doing.
Even on my best days, I need to know that.
Lay minister Craftpirana wrote a devotional for very low income seniors using the metaphor of "waste clay":
"I picture God doing the same thing for us. He takes us through the Waste Clay Days, lays out all our efforts and failures and hopes and dreams on the table that didn't work out. Some of these efforts can be reshaped into works of beauty. Some of our work and dark times make a muddy mix, but a great foundation for something of beauty. In the end, nothing is wasted at all. God shows His creativity as he takes the messes we have made, the messes others have made for us, the mistakes, and turns them into a vessel of beauty and strength, something to cheer someone else or provide a drink of cool water for a parched soul-- or ourselves."
The whole devotional is here. I like it because it is hopeful. All the stumbling, frustration and sadness can be made into something worth having and doing.
Even on my best days, I need to know that.
