Searching for Pearls

Late this evening as I was perusing blogs about international relief and development work, I came across a blog filled with quotes and verses on the topics of suffering and perseverance. I liked this one:

“The burden of suffering seems to be a tombstone hung around our necks. Yet in reality it is simply the weight necessary to hold the diver down while he is searching for pearls.”

- Julius Richter, Streams in the Desert

Today was a long day.