From God's Hands ...

It is not you who shape God

it is God who shapes you.

If then, you are the work of God,

await the hand of the Artist

who does all things in due season.

Offer the Potter your heart,

soft and tractable,

and keep the form

in which the Artist has fashioned you.

Let you clay be moist,

let you grow hard

and lose the imprint of the Potter's fingers ...

-Irenaeus CE 125-202