Rose Buds…

Many years ago, a friend told me - after being heartbroken over a man - that all a woman needs to do is be like a flower. Flowers grow – reveal beauty – and stay put just where they are meant to bloom. A man will see this beauty, and be compelled to come closer to it. All she has to do is be what she’s made to be – beautiful in bloom.

Many of you are probably thinking – that’s great! But what if the bloom is fading? And the petals of life are taking its toll? That’s an obvious thought pattern that almost every woman has thought about sometime in her life – I’m sure.

As a single woman – I’ve been there, and to be very honest – I’m still there a lot of the time. Then I’m reminded that all will fade someday. It’s what’s blooming today that matters. Like a rose with thorns…it has beauty, and it can cause pain if you reach for the wrong part of the stem. God in His amazing wisdom has used nature to teach us life lessons. As women – beauty is essentially what drives us. It could be the beauty of using ones mind to advance world issues, the beauty of wanting to raise a family, the beauty of remaining single, or the beauty that many associate with the prick of selfishness. That would be a thorn!

Where are you in life’s garden of choices?

Another beautiful thing in life that’s hard to understand is pruning. Have you seen rose bushes cut down in Winter – only to look dead. Then in Spring – with all of their glory – they invade the senses and come to bloom after a set-back.

In all of life’s trails and errors - in life’s bad dates…and empty plates…I believe there is a love that is sweet. Even when you can’t see it now – if you don’t sense it – trust it. For one day…it too shall pass.

Edith Piaf says in LA VIE EN ROSE -

When he takes me in his arms
And speaks softly to me,
I see life in rosy hues.
He tells me words of love,
Words of every day,
And in them I become something.
He has entered my heart,
A part of happiness
Whereof I understand the reason.
It’s he for me and I for him, throughout life,
He has told me, he has sworn to me, for life.
And from the things that I sense,
Now I can feel within me
My heart that beats.

~Jaime

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