I borrowed this quotation from a friend's blog... her two-month-old daughter (whose middle name is Pearl) will be undergoing heart surgery next week. I thought it was very fitting for her situation, but also for South Georgia, where pearls are worn as often as jeans and a t-shirt.
"A tiny bit of sand lodges in the flesh of an oyster and becomes an irritating intrusion. Unable to expel it, the oyster covers the particle with layer after layer of a milky secretion until the irritation has become smooth, round and acceptable...Unlike other gems, pearls are drawn from something that's alive. Pearls are produced by a life that has overcome affliction, that has overcome suffering. Little wonder they are so valuable!" from the devotional book, Pearls of Great Price, by Joni Eareckson Tada
Where your pearls proudly, girls!
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