WAHINE - YOU ARE VALUABLE!

A young wahine arrived in a store wearing clothes that showed her tinana all too well. The shop owner, being a wiser older tāne asked her to sit down, looked straight into her karu, and said something she would never forget.

“Young Wahine, everything that Ihowā has made valuable in this world, is covered up and hard to see or find.

For example, where can you find diamonds? In the ground, covered and protected.

Where are the pearls?

Deep in the ocean, covered and protected in a beautiful shell. Where can you find gold? Underground, covered with layers of rock, and to get there you have to work very hard and dig deep.”

He looked at her again and said, “Your tinana is sacred and unique to Ihowā.”

You are far more precious than gold, diamonds, and pearls, therefore you must be covered too.

He then added: “If you keep your precious minerals like gold, diamonds, and pearls deeply covered, a “reputable mining organization”, will work for years to mine those precious goods.

First, they will contact your whānau. Second, sign a professional contract (marriage). Third, they will tenderly refine those precious goods (marital life).

But if you let your minerals find themselves on top of the Earth’s surface, exposed to everyone, you will always attract many illegal miners who will exploit and freely take those riches illegally.“

“Ka whakawhetai ahau ki a koe; he mea whakawehi, he mea whakamīharo tōku hanganga; he mahi whakamīharo āu mahi, mōhio rawa anō tōku wairua ki tēnā.”

Ngā Waiata 139:14

“I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well.”

Psalm 139:14

Article by Diane Walls