The Angel in the Marble

I was listening to a talk today and a quote was presented by Michaelangelo in which someone had asked him how he makes such beautiful sculptures, to which he said:
"I saw an angel in the block of marble and I just chisled until i set him free."
This hit me kind of hard. This is how the Lord is with us in this test of life. He also said of his sculpture of David this...
"It is easy. You just chip away the stone that doesn't look like David."
Okay... so... again, this hit me hard, because this is what the Lord is doing with me, Tahnee. See... I look at it as we all start out as a block of stone. The Lord looks on me, Tahnee, and sees this angel, and he begins to chip away anything that doesn't "look like Tahnee". And it hurts, sometimes so bad you can't feel like you can go on, but you can, you just have to lose that thing because it doesn't "look like you" so it has to go. Sometimes it doesn't hurt, there are the smoothing times as well as the chipping times and those feel so good, but there has to be both to be perfect. Just go with it. It's for the best. What if David had been left unfinished or with a big block on his face, would he be beautiful or unflawed? NO. SO... in reality, the chipping is only chipping away our flaws. The things we all want to get rid of.