There are human lives everywhere about us that are rich in their possibilities of beauty and glory.

No gems or jewels are so precious; but as we see them in their earthly condition they are dull and lustreless, without brightness or loveliness.

Perhaps they are even covered with stain and denied by sin.

Yet they need only the touch of the hand of Christ to bring out the radiance, the loveliness, the beauty of the divine image in them.

And you and I must be the hand of Christ to these lustreless or stained lives.