The
Acadian Rose Wishes All Women
Who
Have Ever Loved and Cared For A Child
A
Wonderful Mother's Day.
Dedicated To
Ella Mae Callahan
Rosa Mae Moe
Aileen Landry Callahan
Judith Kay Flanery
My Mother, My Mother-In-Law,
My Step Mother and My Friend.
I Loved You All.
" I have many
flowers," he said, " but the
children are the most beautiful flowers
of all."
Oscar Wilde
For some time I
have had a person provide me with a rose
boutonniere to pin on the lapel of my suit
every Sunday.
Because I always got a flower on Sunday morning,
I really did not
think much of it. It was a nice gesture,
that I appreciated,
but it became routine. One Sunday,
however, what I
considered ordinary became very special.
As I was leaving
the Sunday service a young man
approached me. He walked right up to
me and said,
"Sir, what are you going to do
with your flower?"
At first I did not know what he was talking
about, but
then I understood. I said, "Do you mean this?"
as
I pointed to the rose , pinned to my coat.
He said "Yes sir. I would like
it if you are just going to
throw it away." At this point I smiled
and gladly told him that
he could have the flower, casually asking
him, what he was going
to do with it. The little boy
was about 10 years old, looked up
at me and said, "Sir, I'm going to
give it to my granny. My mother and
father got a divorce last year.
I was living with my mother, but when she
married again, she
wanted me to live with my father.
I lived with him for a while,
but he said I could not stay, so he sent
me
to live with my grandmother. She is
so good to me.
She cooks for me and takes care of me.
She has been so good
to me that I want to give that pretty flower
to her for loving me."
When the little
boy finished I could hardly speak.
My eyes filled with tears and I knew I had
been touched to the
depths of my soul. I reached up and
unpinned the flower.
With the flower in my hand, I looked at the
boy
and said, "Son, that is the nicest
thing I have ever heard, but
you can't have this flower because it's not
enough.
If you'll look in front of the pulpit, you'll
see a big bouguet of
flowers. Different families buy them
for the
church each week. Please take those
flowers to your
granny because she deserves the very best."
If I hadn't
been touched enough already, he made one last
statement and I will always cherish it.
He said, "What a
wonderful day! I asked for one flower
but got a beautiful bouquet."
Pastor
Johyn R.. Ramsey
A woman does not have to
give birth to a child
to give love and nourishment.
To those women
everywhere I say God Bless
and to those
Mothers who gave birth and
chose to give that child
away, I say you loved enough
to do what was
best for a child you loved.
And to the Mothers who
raised their children with
love and tenderness,
instilling in them the best
values they could,
I say, a job well done!
And to my own Mother, I
can only say thank you
for all the sacrifices you
did in the name of love.
I miss you, Mom. Wish you
could see what your
daughter has accomplished
with the life you
gave her and nourished.
Acadian
Rose
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