“There’s a pearl of good in everyone if you search for it.”

A thought by Ken Blanchard & Morton Shaevitz (2015-02-02) from their book, Refire! Don't Retire: Make the Rest of Your Life the Best of Your Life (Kindle Locations 308-309). Berrett-Koehler Publishers. Kindle Edition. (Click on the title to go to Amazon.com to buy the book.)

Have you found that there are some people that know how to rob you of joy? I’m mean you want to walk away fast when you see them coming. But what about looking at them in a new way. And this thought is a good way to do that. Take some time and do what you can to search for that pearl of good that is in them. Yes they have that shell like the oyster that is not beautiful and when you see it you want to throw it away but what about that pearl that is inside it. It takes some time but when you break it open you see that which is of great value inside them.

That’s what Jesus does with each one of us. Oh yes he sees the outside but he also sees the great potential for good that is inside of us. He came to earth to release that potential for greatness that is inside of each of us. And when he left he said that we are to do what he began to do.

I like what Ken and Morton said a little later in this chapter. They said, “We can all make the world a better place through the moment-to-moment decisions we make as we interact with the people we come in contact with at home, at work, and in the community.”

And one way to do that is to see people as Christ sees them and to realize that “There’s a pearl of good in everyone if you search for it.”

Who is that person that you are tempted to throw away?

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