A ROSE THAT GOD CREATED


God created the rose in the likeness of a woman.
The rose represents her beauty. The stem represents
her strength. The petals are soft as her delicate skin,
the fragrance so pure and so sweet. The leaves
her arms outstretched, always loving and giving 
and for perfection-- -He made her heart of pure gold. 

Thank you God for making me a woman......


A certain man planted a rose and watered it faithfully.
Before it blossomed, he examined it. He saw a bud that 
would soon blossom. He also saw the thorns, and he
thought, "How can any beautiful flower come from a plant
burdened with so many sharp thorns?" Saddened by this
thought, he neglected to water the rose, and before it was
ready to bloom, it died. So it is with many people.


Within every soul, there is a rose. The "God-like " qualities
planted in us at birth, growing amidst the thorns of our faults.
 Many of us look at ourselves and see only the thorns, the
defects. We despair, thinking nothing good can possibly come
from us. We neglect to water the good within us, and eventually
it dies. We never realize our potential.


Some don't see the rose within themselves. It takes someone
else to show it to them.


One of the greatest gifts a person can possess is to be able to
reach past the thorns and find the rose within others. This is
the truest, most innocent and gracious characteristic of love -
To know another person, including their faults, recognize the
nobility in their soul, and yet still help another to realize they
can overcome their faults.


If we show them the rose, they will conquer the thorns. Only
then will they blossom, and most likely, blooming thirty, sixty,
a hundred-fold, as it is given to them.


Our duty in this world is to help others, by showing them their
roses and not their thorns. It is then that we achieve the love
we should feel for each other. Only then can we bloom in our
own garden

~~ Unknown