Hidden Treasure

Thousands of gold coins
stacked inside coffee cans.

Important legal documents
concealed in a cereal box.

Precious heirloom jewelry
jammed into a hole in the mattress.

A human soul filled with God's holy presence
abiding in a frail, broken body.
~ae

"We have this treasure in jars of clay,

so that the surpassing greatness of the power

will be of God

and not from ourselves;

we are afflicted in every way,

but not crushed;

perplexed but not despairing;

persecuted but not forsaken;

struck down but not destroyed;

...Therefore we do not lose heart,

but though our outer man is decaying,

yet our inner man is being renewed day by day...

for the things which are seen are temporal

but the things which are not seen

are eternal."

~II Corinthians 4:7-18