The Value of Becoming

There are so many days I feel like I'm a hopeless cause and God speaks into my heart, "When will you stop forgetting you're in MY hands now and you are my work-in-progress?" If you looked at my jewelry in its different stages before completion, it could be very hard to perceive what I am purposing it to be. I cut, I hammer, I burn, I break, I file...and I imagine that is what God is doing with me, and with all of us. It may be that all I can perceive of myself is a misshapen piece of metal or broken piece of glass, only capable of hurting, not being enough, as garbage or a mistake...but my Creator sees my potential and what I will be, HIS work of art. It's in these stages of refinement I have perceived my value...when in fact, it's in what I'm BECOMING, at the hands of my Creator, where my TRUE value lies.