DIAMOND IN THE DIRT

"Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with." - Thomas Carlyle

Diamond

Bobbie Oskarson of Longmont, Colorado, found an 8.52 - Carat White diamond on Wednesday (June 24) at the Arkansas’s Crater of Diamonds State Park. According to park officials this is the fifth largest diamond found by a park visitor, since the state park was established at Arkansas’s diamond site in 1972. Twenty minutes into her search, Bobbie found the diamond in a couple scoops she had dug from a small mound of dirt.

Confucius said, "Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without." How mind shattering is it, that an 8.52 carat diamond, was laying just there, below the surface of dirt, junk, sand, mud: free for the taking! I'm talking about a DIAMOND here. Why would something of value be hid, in something of absolutely no value - dirt. Something we actually spit and trample on, without any iota of respect or regard.