Pressure, Friction and Heat...Oh, My!!

Do you know how a lump of black, icky coal becomes a diamond?

Pressure and time.

How about a grain of sand becoming a pearl?

Friction and time.

One more...how gold is purified?

Heat and time.

So, if you're straining under the pressures of life, and people are just rubbing you the wrong way, and the heat of your trials seems to be consuming you, and it feels like it's going on forever...look at it a different way---

What is God creating in you? What eternal treasure does He seek from your life?

Kind of changes things, doesn't it?

I know it does for me.

Food for thought today...be blessed!

Deena