"If there's a book you want to read but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it."

- Toni Morrison

Pearls

How lovely are the pearls.

Yet, we need to know that they are the product of pain.

Every pearl is the result of an oyster that has been wounded by a grain of sand that entered inside.

An oyster that has not been wounded cannot produce pearls...

In the inner part of the oyster is a substance called " nácar ". And when a grain of sand penetrates into the oyster, it is incredible. Bacause it surround itself with layers of nácar to protect itself.

As a result, it is forming a beautiful and bright pearl.

Have you felt wounded by words, or attitudes of anyone?

Have you been accused of saying things that you never said?

Have your ideas been rejected or scorned?

Have you been blamed for having done something you never did?

Have your attitude towards certain situations ever been misunderstood?

Have you ever suffered, even once, the blows of indifference?

Did they hurt you, precisely because those people are the least expected to do so?

You were not valued as you really deserve?

So, forgive and make your wound a pearl.

Cover your wounds with several layers of love.

Remember that the more covered your wound is, the less pain will you feel.

On the other hand, if not covered with love, the wound will remain open. It will hurt you more and more each day. It will corrupt you with resentment and bitterness, and worse still, would never heal.

In our society, we can see many oysters empty. Not because they have not been injured, but because they knew how to forgive, to understand and to transform the pain into a pearl.

'A pearl is... a wound healed by love '