The Making of a Pearl

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If anyone is in Christ, there is a new creation: everything old has passed away; see, everything has become new! - 2 Corinthians 5:17 (NRSV) I recently saw a news segment reporting the discovery of the world’s largest pearl. For a pearl to form, an irritant — a parasite, fish scale, or some other bit of rubbish — makes its way inside a mollusk’s shell. The mollusk then secretes a substance that co…