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THEY SAY THAT AN ELEPHANT

                                         NEVER  FORGETS!









              A strange title for an article for the Contact magazine   Shapeless lumps of brown clay were moulded and
              you may think, but let me explain.                  shaped by our hands into flowers and small elephants
                                                                  and we worked together to make different parts of a
              The Art and Prayer Thing has been running every     large elephant. It was a work in progress and each week
              Tuesday night for the past two years in Hope House   we could see how everything was starting to come
              under the skilful guidance of Carole Kane. A few    together. Diane fired the shapes in a kiln and we were
              months ago, wearing her Community Arts Partnership   then able to paint the flowers and elephants in
              hat, she told me about a grant that was available to   beautiful colours.
              community groups for art projects.
                                                                  Each week, after our class, we had lunch together and
              We decided that we would like to make something for   it was a wonderful time of fun and fellowship. On 10
              the Sonia McGuckin Community Memorial Garden in     November, we had a celebration to unveil our
              Victoria Park, but weren’t sure what. After speaking to   completed masterpiece and see it in all its glory
              David McGuckin, the late Sonia’s husband, we        erected on a wall in the memorial garden.
              discovered that Sonia loved elephants. Problem solved!
              We would make a ceramic elephant for the garden.    They say that an elephant never forgets.  May we
              Paper work duly completed and submitted we waited   never forget that each one of us is God’s workmanship
              to hear if our application for a grant had been     created in Christ Jesus to do good works which God
              successful and to our delight it was!  On 29 September,   prepared in advance for us to do. We are a work in
              17 apprehensive but enthusiastic “artists” met with   progress but He who began a good work in us will carry
              Diane, our teacher, and the work began. We were in the   it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus. Just
              hands of the “master” and with her help and guidance,   like Diane our “master” had a plan to bring together our
              what seemed like an impossible task for us became   arts project, God has a perfect plan for our lives. When
              possible.                                           we place our lives into the true master’s hands and
                                                                  allow Him to melt us, mould us and shape us, we will
                                                                  become all that He intended for us to be.

                                                                  Lorraine McAllister
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