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The sculptor has an arduous task when he prepares to make his work, looks at the giant piece of stone in front of him and imagines the finished work, determines to make the deep grooves that will give him the character and image he needs to be captured, because there in that huge piece of stone where no one can see anything and where perhaps many could say, it is a waste of time the sculptor of heaven has seen something wonderful, is even willing to show that very stone that it looks like he sees it so that it can be arranged and he can do his work.
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In so that others may see wonderful things about you first you have to see them yourself I am not saying with this that you are vainglorious, egocentric etc. We should not have a concept of ourselves neither below, nor above should it be with sanity not pretending to be superior to anyone but not being below, neither is it healthy.
Our most severe trials are God's most powerful response to our request that we conform ourselves to God's will.
Paul Washer.
This enormous stone can become the masterpiece of heaven, if it leaves its preconceived ideas and only loosens up in the wise and loving hands of those who only want to do the extraordinary, to stop being something common to be unimaginable requires all our courage and willingness to change, because on many occasions it will seem that we crumble but are only the pieces that were left over and do not let us see what we really are.
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