Impressions in Clay: Learning to Live Under the Master's Hand

by Wendy Lawton

Book Overview

Reflections by a sculptor on the Great Sculptor and His work Award-winning writer, sculptor, and doll designer Wendy Lawton offers a penetrating look at the Bible's metaphor of God's people being clay... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802415024
• ISBN13: 9780802415028
• Release Date: October 2005
• Publisher: Moody Publishers
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.0" x 7.1"

Customer Reviews

Refreshing insights

Wendy's expertise as a sculptor lays a solid foundation for this powerful little book and the spiritual truths it teaches. Its anecdotes, Scriptures, quotes, and prayers enhance the underlying theme -- that God is the Potter, we are His clay, and He is transforming us into vessels fit for His highest purpose. Perfect for gift-giving!

A face of beauty in the Potter's hands

Just as a useless slab of clay becomes a face of beauty in the hands of master sculptor, Wendy Lawton, she convinced me that I, too, can become a woman of beauty when I submit to the loving hands of the Master Potter. Impressions in Clay deepened my desire to become a vessel of worth as Wendy molded my thoughts through poignant stories and powerful imagery. The authoritative chronicle of the sculpting process left my heart yearning to become all that I was created to be. Thank you, Wendy, for calling me to the Potter's wheel. Jill Rigby-Author of Manners of the Heart

Judith Miller, Topeka, KS

Just when I thought there couldn't be another metaphor on the potter and the clay, Wendy Lawton pens a book that proves me absolutely incorrect. This mighty little book is one you'll go back to again and again. If you want to give a wonderful gift to someone you love, I highly recommend you give this book! Your friends and family will thank you.

Lawton writes books that touch the heart

Wendy Lawton is a speical kind of writer. Her books are textured and rich. Impressions in Clay touches the heart. As an artist herself, her insights are especially meaningful. If you're buying any Christian book for yourself this holdiay season or as a gift, this is the one to pick up. This book and Wendy is a true treasure.

Totally Impressed with Impressions in Clay!

?Award-winning designer, Wendy Lawton, is an expert at sculpting both porcelain dolls and pristine words. Her pen is a tool in her artisan hands. In Impressions in Clay, Lawton deftly applies the "potter's" metaphor from the book of Jeremiah to our lives and, consequently, leaves lasting impressions of God's faithfulness on our hearts. This book is rich in imagery, rich in imagination. Yet it is sculpted on a foundation of sound Biblical truth. Thanks to Lawton, for the first time I realized that some of the pottery pitfalls-like spinning dizzily on God's pottery wheel, being thumped down and squashed, or even being shelved lengthily to dry-are not bad things, but rather the best things to make us beautiful. Because I want to be a "vessel of honor," I'm thankful to Lawton for honoring God's truths and showing me how. Just as porcelain in a talented doll designer's hands becomes a work of art, lumps of human clay in the Master Potter's hands become masterpieces to reflect His glory. Although the metaphor only goes so far, because human beings will always by nature be cracked and marred, Lawton gives us hope that if we submit to our Potter God, we will one day be His perfect trophies in heaven, won through His grace and the sacrifice of our Lord Jesus Christ. It will be an art show I can't wait to attend! -Lynn D. Morrissey, author of Love Letters to God and AWSA/CLASS speaker