ARE YOU A PEARL OR JUST A GRAIN OF SAND?

"And above all things have fervent love for one another, for love will cover a multitude of sins.” (I Peter 4:8)

How beautiful are the pearls right. But many do not know they are the product of pain. Every pearl is the product of an oyster that has been hurt by a grain of sand that has entered inside of it.

An oyster that has not been hurt by a grain of sand cannot produce any pearl. In the inside of the oyster is a substance called "Mother of Pearl" as a grain of sand has penetrated the oyster, it covers it with layers of nacre to protect themselves. The result is forming a beautiful and dazzling pearl.

Have you ever been hurt by the words or attitudes of a person? Have you been accused of saying things you've never spoken? Have your ideas been rejected or ridiculed? Have you been guilty of doing something you've never did? Have you ever suffered the blows of indifference? Have you ever been hurt by those who you least expected? Do you feel that you're not valued as you deserve? Then you must forgive and make your wound a large pearl.

Covering your wound with several layers of love, remember that the more you cover your wound, less pain you will feel. And on the other hand, if you do not cover your wound with love, the wound will remain open and will hurt more and more every day, it will be infected with resentment, bitterness and even worse, will never heal.

In our society, we can see many "empty Oysters" not because they have not been hurt, but because they failed to forgive, understand and transform pain into a beautiful pearl. Always remember a pearl is a wound covered by love.