A Good Message

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..

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 FAMILY & FRIENDS!

LIFE IS TOO SHORT AND TRUE FRIENDS ARE TOO FEW!!!!

Jai Gurudev...