A Irritations Help Story

Story title: A Irritation Help
By: Harry Emerson Fosdick


      Most of us can afford to take a lesson from the oyster. The extraordinary thing about an oyster is this: irritations, like a grain of sand, get into its shell. It does not like them. But when it cannot get rid of them, it settles down to make of them one of the most beautiful things in the world. I makes the irritation into a pearl.

     There are irritations in our lives today, and there is only one prescription: make pearls out of them.
     It may be a pearl of patience. But anyway, make a pearl. And it takes faith and love to do it.