A
man was exploring caves by the seashore. In one of the
caves he found a canvas bag with a bunch of hardened clay
vessels. It was like someone had rolled balls of clay
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 vessels.
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.
~Author
Unknown
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