starbrite_usa is 47 years old, is located in South Carolina / USA and has been a SingSnap member since January 30, 2007.
So far she has made a total of 31 recordings.
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 one of us. If we take
the time to get to know that person, 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.
I am so blessed by the gems of friendship I have
with each of you. Thank you for looking beyond my clay
vessel.
