Seeking Treasure (Part 2)

<p>Fireheart’s eyes sharpened as she beheld an opalescent creature on the highest peak of the cliffs, glinting like a thousand diamonds in the sun’s waning light. As she flew nearer, she noted with surprise that it was a dragon. Fireheart hovered above, waiting for a warning signal of flames or the flash of claws, but neither came.</p><p>.</p><p>Softly, she landed next to the dragon. In his eyes, she saw her whole lifetime reflected. The fathomless depths of these emerald irises seemed to echo all her longing, reveal all her weaknesses, and yet, even as she felt completely known, somehow she felt completely loved by this shimmering dragon. It was impossible to tell how old or young he was, for he seemed to be from another realm entirely.</p><p>.</p><p>Surely a dragon this majestic would know of the treasure! Fireheart opened her mouth and asked, her heart’s desires spilling out, “Do you know where to find the great treasure? I’ve heard the legends and searched far...but I cannot find it.” The dragon smiled knowingly, and his expression shook Fireheart to her core. “Who are you?” she whispered. “It is as though you have known me all my life, and my very soul feels complete as I stand here with you.”</p><p>.</p><p>The dragon answered in an impossibly beautiful voice, “I am the one you have been seeking your whole life. Child, I am the treasure. Store up treasures no longer, for you have found me. Give your jewels and your gold away, and devote your heart to me. I will fill up all the places in your soul that are longing. Where your treasure is, there your heart will be. Fireheart, will you choose me as your treasure?”</p><p>.</p><p>Joy welled up in Fireheart’s soul and spilled out of her eyes in the shape of tears. "Mother said I would know I found the treasure when I felt it in my heart," she thought, "and now it burns brighter than a thousand flickers of flame in my soul!"</p><p>.</p><p>“Come, follow me and take hold of the life that is truly life.” • Savannah Coleman </p><p>.</p><p>• In Mark 10, a wealthy man ca