The Making of a Pearl

The making of a pearl is not an easy task. It takes isolation, irritants and intrusion copulated with the right time for a pearl to be. Somewhere lying on the ocean floor, deep in the waves of isolation lies a living oyster submersed in the residue of murkiness. Encased in it's hard shell of protection it sits alone becoming to be. Oysters don't have legs or fins, so their movements are restricted. They are often pushed, bumped and carried to other places by predators,animals or currents.
      


As they open themselves to feed or breathe, a particle of a foreign object that is floating in the water becomes ingested by the oyster and lodged inside its shell. The intrusion of this particle irritates and sickens the oyster until it  form deposits of layers called nacre to try and regurgitate or push the irritable particle out. With little to no avail, the particle remains logged in between the shell of an oyster and it's flesh mantle. As much as the oyster wants the particle out and for the irritability to cease, the particle struggles to free itself for it know what lies ahead, so it pushes and strains to get out by piercing the outer mantle flesh yet to no avail.


The oyster surrenders to this intrusion, this foreign visitor embedded in it's identity, realizing that the struggle only ends in the moment of surrender.  It is in this moment of now  the oyster can overcome by birthing what is to be. The particle dies overcome by the strength of the oyster's surrender ,entombing itself within the oyster's shell. The mantle flesh tissue continues to grow until it surrounds it's dead intruder's body providing a sac over it's remains by covering it in it's mantle.


As the mantle lays upon the intruder, that which is dead begins to form into the shape of something else.  For it's own protection the oyster produces layers upon layers of nacre, the substance from which it's made, touching and immersing this dead thing by allowing the light of it's being to cover the darkness of death until a pearl is formed.
This process is so rare because many oysters die from the irritants of the intrusion. What about you my friend?
As the trials of intruders penetrate your life causing you much discomfort, what will you do? Will you fight and struggle against the irritants or surrender to the process. 


Rape, divorce, life experiences can cause our shells to become hard but you can't  allow your circumstance to kill you or your spirit. Whatever you're going through right now, I know it's irritable and causing pain but I encourage you to surrender and allow the tests to crucify your flesh and learn every lesson in the test for it is then that you are able to  lay the mantle of your spirit upon your trial intruders and birth pearls out of your pain.Pearls are precious, priceless and pretty and so are you.


"The most beautiful pearl is nothing more, in fact, than the brilliant sarcophagus of a worm.”


You are much more than a worm, you are God's pearl.


Matthew 7:6, Matthew 13:46, Revelation 21:21, etc...