Tell Me A Story: FRIENDSHIP ROSE

Monday, May 30, 2016

FRIENDSHIP ROSE

Mary Marcia
America's STORYTELLER
Telling Untold Stories in Photographs, Prose and Public Speaking

Link: http://tellmeastory-marcia.blogspot.com/2016/05/friendship-rose.html

Today I'm sharing a blog I first wrote in March 2014.

FRIENDSHIP

Relationship between two people
     affection
        sympathy
           empathy
              honesty
                 compassion
                    understanding
                       fun
                          trust
                             faith
                                love
                                   caring

"But friendship is the breathing rose,

with sweets in every fold."

Oliver Wendell Holmes

(1809-1894)

American physician, poet, professor, lecturer and author.

There is a time when mothers and daughters become friends.

If we try to be friends when our girls are too young, they lose a mother.

Then who will be their mother?

Being a mom is often a thank-less job, but not always.

My daughter, Faith, gave me red carnations for Valentine's Day. They bloomed for 19 days.

This week, Faith gifted me with a beautiful bouquet of flowers that she hand picked from the florist: red, yellow, ivory and lavender roses and a red carnation.

I arranged each flower carefully in two of my favorite blue-and-white vases. I gently touched the precious petals, and drank in their fragrance. I brushed my hand across the rosemary in the pot next to the roses. It's scent lingered on my hands. For one brief moment I forgot about the snow covered ground outside my kitchen window.

"Why beautiful flowers again?" I asked my daughter.

"I just wanted to thank you for taking me to divisional championship swim meets, Mom," said Faith.

Going to swim practice and swim meets is something we always do. It's nothing out of the ordinary.

What's extraordinary is a young woman who brings gifts (purchased with her hard-earned money) to her mom, and to countless others. Only God knows each act of kindness Faith bestows on others. One day He will reward her openly for her acts done in secret.

I'm proud to share that Faith earned medals in every event she swam at division championships. She trains hard every day at swim practice.

I'm even more proud, in a godly way, of the way Faith lives her life in service to others.