DEFECTIVE INSIDE

A visitor to a sculptor's studio commented, "I saw some blocks of marble lying in a corner. Out of one a hand emerged, out of another was a head, with face unfinished. Others had unfinished work. Why the abandoned pieces? The artist answered: "All those pieces showed great promise on the outside, on the surface. But as I chiselled deeper, flaws and defects in the marble that were not visible on the surface showed up. They had to be abandoned." The difference between marble defects and human defects is that the marble cannot repent and be cleansed, but a person can. The defective heart becomes the perfect heart at the touch of the Master's Hand!