Don’t be overwhelmed by pressure. Great pressure brings mighty transformation! The word diamond in the Greek language translates as “adamas” which means unconquerable and indestructible. Diamonds were originally discovered in India and the the earliest producing diamond mines were in the Golconda region of India around the fourth century BC.
The ancient Greeks believed that diamonds were splinters of stars fallen to the Earth. Romans believed that diamonds had power to ward off evil spirits and wore them as talismans.
The diamond is the hardest of all gemstones known to humans. It is also the simplest in composition and is made up of only one element—common carbon. Diamonds are carried to the surface of the earth by volcanic eruptions; only very few diamonds survive the hazardous journey from the depths of the earth to reach the surface. Diamonds are brittle; if hit hard with a hammer a diamond will shatter or splinter. Even though a diamond can be broken, a diamond lasts forever and its composition never gets destroyed.
Over time, through pressure, the volcanic material hardens to a rock. We too, over time, start to strengthen under pressure to become tougher material. Some of us are diamonds in the rough. We have potential, gifts, talents lying latently within us. Our lives are designed to commission us to do greater things in our lives and it is never over.
Once we are hardened to form under pressure, a refinement takes place where grinding away rage, anger, jealousy, bickering and the baser natures of humans are chipped off as generic carbonated dust turns to carbon rock and then finally chipped and grinded to beautiful exotic diamonds.
Diamonds are a gift to the world. There are intensely valuable, precious. We too will be transformed to value through our pain, pressure and sufferings is we allow tranformation enegy to work positively in our lives to glow in a dark world. The price the diamond had to pay to be become this way is high, so too, when we go under pressure to transform, it is powerful change but to transform, we need to bear the pressure patiently, without getting stressed out, calm and centered, peaceful to be able to sparkle in the world in due time.
Rita
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