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My life, like everybody else’s, is a treasure trove with a mine from which one’s treasures are derived. The familial bonds we form are platinum; our friendships gold. These are precious ores that most souls are born to find with ease. But all of us have other precious stones we need to mine. They are the fruit of skills and talents put to their best use. My treasure trove abounds with gems already - ones that I discovered as a child. Though rough in their natural form, most of them I opened as I grew in understanding of God’s gifts for me. Others not so easy to break open were able to be shaped, for once I sought them out inside my mine and cracked them open. . . their radiance was revealed to me. Our precious gems, God-given, must not be squandered. Once mined, they need to be shared. Artists, teachers, scientists, tradesmen, leaders, even dreamers - we all have different kinds of gemstones hidden in our mines. Once, later on in my own life, I came upon a silver tool used by many different types of artists. I’d seen it in my youth but hardly used it. Thousands of words lay embedded in that specific tool God gifted me. I delved into the depths of my mine and learned that I could tap and tap the silver worded tool upon each stone, and finally a gem would then reveal itself to me. The more I searched for stones to tap, The more wondrous were the nuggets that appeared - And there were more of them than I’d believed I could ever find - buried there so deeply in my mine! The art of crafting them and polishing them up I was able to improve upon in time. . . and found that even those less valuable could shine! A poet’s gems need not be bought or sold. Displaying them with love and pride alone can be fulfilling. How I thrill to view a wide variety of gemstones freely shown from others’ treasure troves. From the rarest and the clearest multi-faceted color-shifting Alexandrite and tanzanite, and the most remarkable of diamonds, rubies, sapphires, emeralds, amethyst and jade, down to the lowliest of onyx, quartz, garnets, or agates, each stone has something of the poet’s soul within it, especially beautiful when polished to a brilliant sheen! The more I open gemstones in my mine, the more of them I find, and my silver-worded tool lies nearby at the ready.
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