What does an oyster do...
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What does an oyster do? Nothing. It can manage some small movement to find food. And it can become famous, if some famous person eats it. But, by and large, it achieves nothing. It sets no goals. It meets no deadlines. It doesn't build roads or bridges or study law or medicine. Nothing.
Unless it gets hurt. If some gravel or sand or something gets under the oyster's shell, wounding the oyster, irritating it to action, the oyster really gets to work. Now it can accomplish one of the most sublime achievements on earth. It begins to coat the wound with mother-of-pearl, and that's how pearls are born.
Yes, there is gravel in our lives. We are born to be wounded and irritated. But we can coat our hurts, and make a string of pearls out of them. A genuine string of pearls, not artificial. -- Mosley
Unless it gets hurt. If some gravel or sand or something gets under the oyster's shell, wounding the oyster, irritating it to action, the oyster really gets to work. Now it can accomplish one of the most sublime achievements on earth. It begins to coat the wound with mother-of-pearl, and that's how pearls are born.
Yes, there is gravel in our lives. We are born to be wounded and irritated. But we can coat our hurts, and make a string of pearls out of them. A genuine string of pearls, not artificial. -- Mosley
