Pearl of Great Price

"The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sold everything to buy a pearl of great price." —Matthew 13:45–46

The parable is short, the logic is simple, and the implication changes everything for the hearer.

There is something worth more than anything else you own, anything else you've built, anything else you're holding onto. And the man in the parable doesn't agonize over the decision—he recognizes what he's found, and acts accordingly.

The hand in this piece holds the pearl in a position of blessing—the ancient IC XC gesture of the Orthodox icons, the hand that gives and receives at once. Because this is what the kingdom is: not something we earn, but something we recognize, reach for, and reorganize our lives around.

This piece is a reminder. Not a challenge, not a rebuke, but a quiet prompt, the way the old Memento Mori worked: remember what this is worth. Remember what you have.

A Son was given. A Child was born. There is nothing on this earth that compares.