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by stkin01 at 10/22/2009 6:11:52 AM
Clay Balls
A man was exploring caves by the Seashore.
In one of the caves he found a canvas bag with a bunch of hardened clay
balls. It was like someone had rolled clay balls and left them out in
the sun to bake. They didn't look like much, but they intrigued the
man, so he took the bag out of the cave with him. As he strolled along
the beach, he would throw the clay balls one at a time out into the ocean
as far as he could.
He thought little about it, until he dropped
one of the clay balls and it cracked open on a rock . Inside was a
beautiful, precious stone!
Excited, the man started breaking open the
remaining clay balls. Each contained a similar treasure. He found
thousands of dollars worth of jewels in the 20 or so clay balls he had
left.
Then it struck him. He had been on the beach
a long time. He had thrown maybe 50 or 60 of the clay balls with their
hidden treasure into the ocean waves. Instead of thousands of dollars in
treasure, he could have taken home tens of thousands, but he had just
thrown it away!
It's like that with people. We look at
someone, maybe even ourselves, and we see the external clay vessel. It
doesn't look like much from the outside. It isn't always beautiful or
sparkling, so we discount it.
We see that person as less important than
someone more beautiful or stylish or well known or wealthy. But we have
not taken the time to find the treasure hidden inside that person.
There is a treasure in each and every one of
us. If we take the time to get to know that person, and if we ask God to
show us that person the way He sees them, then the clay begins to peel
away and the brilliant gem begins to shine forth.
May we not come to the end of our lives and
find out that we have thrown away a fortune in friendships because the
gems were hidden in bits of clay. May we see the people in our world as
God sees them.
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