Diamonds Deep In the Dust

They are EVERYWHERE, if we would only look, and bend and scratch through the thick dust of the weary mundane, a world too often heavy with boredom, pettiness, even thoughtless cruelty. But the jewels are there! Kick bravely into life's dirt, you'll see them sparkling like secret stars in some dark, cold, lonely universe: red rubies of love, the deep, deep blue sapphires of hope and most precious of all-- myriad perfect diamonds, each one an endless soul, God's eternal treasure....