Wednesday, January 5, 2011

Pearls

Did you know that pearls, which are among the most beautiful and treasured of all jewels, actually result from overcoming irritation?  You see, pearls are found in pearl oysters. They are actually created when a foreign body of some kind, like a grain of sand or a parasite, finds its way into the folds of a pearl oyster. The oyster reacts to the irritant by continually coating it with with layer upon layer of a substance known as 'nacre', that creates and gives the pearl its unique appearance and iridescent beauty.

The lesson here is that we can look at irritations in our lives as issues and challenges, or we can see them as the impetus for something beautiful if we are willing to work at dealing with it.

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