I needed this message from a recent lecture. I'm a visual person so a picture helps anchor the lesson deeper within. It was about a pearl. A helpful hint on what to do when someone rubs you the wrong way. The advice was to do what oysters do.
A natural pearl is made from an oyster's defense
mechanism. The oyster combats an
irritant that has worked its way into the shell. The oyster gets busy and uses a
fluid to coat the "intruder". Over time, layer upon layer of this
coating forms a lustrous pearl.
It may feel impossible at times to take our irritations and use them for healing and good. When someone rubs you the wrong way, are you the one willing to give a coat of divine love, patience, and forgiveness. In the long run, it's far better to create something beautiful within. This process can help to give up resentments, anger, sad memories, destructive thinking.
Rather than rubbing you inside out, get busy and silently add a coating of gratitude. A layer of appreciation for all of God's love for you and your family.
God loves all, including the someone who is rubbing you the wrong way. Divine Love corrects and governs man. Divine Love is governing the relationship, and God's law of Love is already in operation. All these layers of truth make a pearl and you will transformed by the power of your thinking and your actions.
Divine Love is ever present in the Kingdom within you. See beyond appearances. Human hatred has no legitimate mandate. Divine Love is on the throne within your consciousness now and always. Only our thinking so can separate us from God's love.
What we need most is to draw on Divine Love for all that we need in
our personal relationships, relationships with our community, our
nation, and the world. Divine love is ever present.
So the pearl is a good example on how to take the irritants and create something beautiful within us. We have help and can call on the Holy Spirit and the angels.
Before I go, I wanted to add an amusing layer to this pearl. This photo popped up on-line with an angel coating of humor. Would you believe it's called a gold-lipped pearl. Really?!
The angels want to make sure we understand the power of our words. They never return to us void. So think of a pearl the next time someone tries to annoy you. Smile, and add a layer of gratitude, peace and harmony to the little piece of grit. You know just what to do...you're making a pearl.
Remember you are never alone. God has given His angels to watch over you and protect you in all your ways when you abide in the Shadow of the Almighty. The best is yet to be.
Love and peace,
Rae Karen