It is defective oysters that produce the pearls.
This is the quote from my Journey of Hope daily flip book.
It falls on my birthday May 16th.
And it speaks hope to my heart like you don’t even know.
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THAT is an awesome quote!!
There is nothing defective about the oyster… it’s an annoyed (irritated) oyster that produces a smooth hard covering around the grain of sand that was irritating it’s tender membrane that produced the pearl.
Very few pearls are ‘perfect’, as man defines it, many hundreds of pearls are ‘imperfect’/defective and get thrown out so that one in a thousand might have value…
much like people.
in the olden days the (perfect, healthy, but annoyed) oyster had to die so the pearl would be recovered. Some still do even today.
Does the quote still speak to your heart the same way when the true facts are known??
Humans are so good at hearing only what they want to hear, knowing only what they want to know, believing only what they want to believe.
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I don’t even know what to say Love. I don’t like to debate. All that comes to mind is that I didn’t write this quote. What I have learned is that not all humans are ignorant but scared. We keep what we want to believe as a safety blanket because we can only take so much of the unknown or the truth. That is why God’s grace is available.
That’s great. I’ve been really annoyed and irritated lately. Perfect timing to hear the truth about Oysters. HA! So to answer your question, yes, it speaks to my heart even more when the true facts are known. LOL!