Connect

On Friday 14th March, I went to the ladies night at Church that they call 'Connect'. They are organised by a team of ladies that are good at finding creative things for us to do and see. This particular time was the theme of Roses. We made a sand saucer and had to do a quiz about roses and each team was awarded points. One of the questions was what is the name of a fairytale that had a rose in it. Our team (called the Sexy Rexy's-Maureen's idea) wrote down the "Beauty and the Beast". The team that acted out the fairytale got extra points, so we decided to do that. Well, I ended up as the Beast, Jo was the narrator and Maureen was Beauty. It went well considering we only had 10 minutes to come up with it. Well at the end of the night when we were walking out the door, we got given a scroll with a parable on it. It's very touching and quite true, so I decided to share it on this post.

The Parable of the Rose

A certain man planted a rose and watered it faithfully and before it blossomed, he examined it. He saw the bud that would soon blossom, but noticed thorns upon the stem 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 amid the thorns of our faults. Many of us look at ourselves and see only the thorns, the defects. We despair, thinking that 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 people do not see the rose within themselves; someone else must 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 characteristic of love...to look at a person and know their true faults. Accepting that person into your life, while recognizing the nobility in their soul.

Help them to realize that they can overcome their faults. If we show them the rose, they will conquer their thorns. Only then will they blossom many times over.

The End

Hope you got something out of this like I did. Better sign off as TJ has just walked in. Blessings to all.