The 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.

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 FRIENDS!
LIFE IS TOO SHORT AND FRIENDS ARE TOO FEW!
     
'Do not ask the Lord to Guide your Footsteps
if you are not willing to MOVE your Feet'
 

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John 13:34 A new commandment I give unto you,
That ye love one another; as I have loved you,
that ye also love one another.
Isaiah 64:8 But now, O LORD, thou art our father;
we are the clay, and thou our potter;
and we all are the work of thy hand.
Romans 13:8 Owe no man any thing, but to love one another:
 for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.
1Thessalonians 3:12 And the Lord make you to increase and
abound in love one toward another,
and toward all men, even as we do toward you:
1John 3:11 For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning,
that we should love one another.
 


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