Elissa Ely a psychiatrist in Boston and a frequent contributor to The Boston Globe, in her column July 15, 2021, recounted the time she was a student in Boston living in a walk-up apartment in Cambridge.
Her landlady was a kind, quiet widow, whose back door was always open, and a cup of tea readily offered to her tenants.
Things were not going well for Elissa socially or professionally. Life, she remembers, “felt bleak.” One afternoon, she passed her landlady’s open door.
Dr. Ely remembers: “My landlady set out the cup and began to chatter, as she liked to do. Then she must have sensed the mood, because she stopped. Several simple words — out of seeming nowhere — followed. I will never forget them. “ ‘You,’ she said, “are a hidden treasure, just waiting to be found.’”
“That sentence has kept me company for 30 years … she said it with such fervency. We lean on the faith of others when our own has disappeared.”
Christ speaks in a kind widow’s reassurance to a young woman going through a difficult time: You are a hidden treasure, just waiting to be found. [Connections September 2021]
You are a hidden treasure and God sent you to earth that others may treasurer you as the Lord does. Today, I thank God for you.
May God Be Praised.
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