Clay On Clay As Clay

A building is built twice.

First an architect designs the building by drawing to scale.  Then builders follow the architect's plans as they deal with brick and mortar.  One toils on paper, the other in soil.

An architect without a builder will fill a file cabinet, not build a home.  A builder without an architect erects misguided monuments.  Each one needs the other to build a house correctly.

Unless the Lord builds the house, the laborers build in vain.

Architecture without a builder remains invisible.  The Lord is  the Architect; His designs are sufficient. 

We are the builders.  One has toiled, the others are soil.  Our labor should be guided by God's design, even as we deal with clay, on clay as clay.

A building is built twice.