No modelling skill is required for this exercise.
It is simply a matter of what you want to do with the clay!

Take some clay and spend a little while making something. It doesn’t matter what, just so long as it is something which gives you pleasure and, by the end, something with which you are pleased.

Spend a moment enjoying your sculpture. Reflect on the effort it has taken you, the process of refinement, and the joy of the finished product.

Now take the clay and make something else. Refashion it into something different – a different figure, a different object - but something else which again gives you pleasure and with which you are pleased.

Reflect on the process you have just been through: the pain of destroying what you already had, the remoulding that had to take place to form something new, the joy of making something different from the same material.

Then reflect on your own life. We have all been made in the image of God and we rejoice that he has created us and fashioned us. Yet we know, too, that that image is marred within us. If we are truly to be the people he meant us to be, some remaking, some re-creating, some refashioning has to take place. That can be a painful process, but one that is necessary to make something new. What needs to change in your life? What needs reshaping if you are to be the person God intended you to be? Share your thoughts with God, and listen to his reply.

Spirit of the living God,
Fall afresh on me.
Spirit of the living God,
Fall afresh on me.
Break me, melt me,
Mould me, fill me.
Spirit of the living God,
Fall afresh on me.

Daniel Iverson