Do you know that
lovely fact about the opal? That, in the
first place, it is made only of desert dust, sand, silica, and owes its beauty
and preciousness to a defect. It is a stone
with a broken heart. It is full of
minute fissures which admit air, and the air refracts the light. Hence its lovely hues, and that sweet lamp of
fire that ever burns at its heart, for the breath of the Lord God is in it.
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You are only conscious
of the cracks and desert dust, but so He makes His precious opal. We must be broken in ourselves before we can
give back the lovely hues of his light, and the lamp in the temple can burn in
us and never go out. – Ellice Hopkins (Gold
Cord by Amy Carmichael)
