A man was on a journey far from home and became shipwrecked, what he learned followed him the rest of his days.
Far from his homeland, the shipwrecked voyager wound up on the shore of a land foreign in every way. He was helped ashore, and soon recovered, One day, as he was walking with a new friend, he noticed the pebbles on the ground sparkled. He made a comment about the beautiful stones and his friend said ‘Yes, they are diamonds, and they are everywhere’. Wherever he went on this tiny island, there were diamonds on the ground, amazing diamonds worth many fortunes back home. The diamonds, just stones really, were nothing special for these people. The islanders had never heard of his homeland, they were quite happy and content with their lives in their tiny island paradise.
As it happened, the voyager wound up living with these innocent and wonderful people in their island paradise for many years. After a time, he began to wonder if he would ever return home. Then one day, out of the blue of the horizon, he spotted something at first unbelievable, then truly amazing. He spotted a ship! The ship came closer to shore and, after a moment’s hesitation, he called out to it! As the landing party came ashore, he rushed to get aboard thinking he was at last saved, finally he would go home! The ship crew quickly whisked him back to the mother ship and he returned to his homeland.
When he arrived back home, he realized he had never picked up any of the diamonds for himself, leaving untold wealth behind him, forever lost. Just a pocket full of diamonds from the land would have been worth a sizable fortune, he took not a one. All of that wealth still resting on the sand, never to be anything but what the islanders saw them as, just pretty stones!
How much wealth do we leave “resting on the sand” every day? I wonder?
This story was shared by Ross Diamond. I hope you will visit Ross!
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