We all have a dream of finding treasure and many of the folk who previously lived where we now live, sought treasure from the ground.

They worked goldfields and some were made rich by doing so. They found the treasure they sought.

The gold is long gone but recently my husband was working in the garden and noticed a small creature moving through the grass. He paused, looked, and searched for it. Finally he found it, a tiny, tiny frog.

Cupping it between his hands, he brought it in to show me and when I peered between his protecting fingers, I frowned. The creature was actually upside down and looked awfully uninteresting. It was not much larger that one of the myriad of slaters that shelter underneath my pot-plants and its tummy was about the same nondescript colour.

However, we had never seen such a tiny frog and we marvelled together at its perfection. We even noticed it had tiny orange spots and it seemed to us to be fully grown.

When we checked its identity we were further surprised. We discovered that it is a rare creature, and we lived in the relatively small area of its habitat.

The little creature easily met our definition of garden treasure but what is our definition of eternal treasure?

Jesus summed it up for all of us. He said, ‘provide for yourselves purses that do not wear out, and never failing treasure in heaven, where no thief can get near it, no moth destroy it. For where your treasure is, there will be your heart also.’ Luke 12:33,34.

Elizabeth Price reprice@dragnet.com.au