With patience and perseverance, we produce beauty

A strand of pearls is a beautiful, sought-after piece of jewelry. Pearls come from oysters. A small irritant, like a grain of sand, gets in the oyster. Unable to get rid of the grain of sand, the oyster covers it with a substance, attempting to lessen the irritation. Problem is that the irritant keeps growing and the oyster keeps covering it with more substances, changing this small irritant into a beautiful, lustrous pearl. If it weren’t for the suffering, there would be no pearl. The Christian life can be challenging. Due to the many obstacles and trials Christians encounter, we...

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