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 everyone 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 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.
I am so blessed by the gems of friendship I have with you. Thank you for looking beyond my clay vessel.
APPRECIATE EVERY SINGLE THING YOU HAVE. ESPECIALLY YOUR FAMILY AND FRIENDS! LIFE IS TOO SHORT AND FRIENDSHIPS ARE TOO FEW!
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Awe Tania thats absolutely beautiful and U R right as ii’s likeI have said in my blog a kiss
Thank you Paddy
Great blog Ann…
Thank you Susan…
Awesome story Ann and so true. A pastor once told me, “if you look at people through the eyes of Christ you will always see beauty” You come up with some great stuff. Thanks for posting. 🙂
Awwwww dear anne,what a lovely blog,.thank you for sharing this with us,just lovely.((((((hugs))))))),xxx
Awwwwww flowersun (((HUGS))) to you xxx
Pleased that you like it jsmile….Ann
Nice one tania. 🙂
Thank you PolliePie!!!!
Now this is a great one Tania, thank you xxx
you are welcome grandma xxxxx thank you.
Great blog ann xox
Thank you foreveryoung xoxoxo
Great blog ann, so true xxx
Thank you Skips…
Tania this good and value loaded, thanx for sharing
You are welcome Beatrice.