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Food #11: The Rose - The Inspirational Poem about Why to Go on Living

No Rose Without a Thorn

The rose is a wonderful symbol of what it means to live here on Earth in a physical body. From the outside, the rose has a beautiful color, a pleasing shape, and an inviting scent. But... look closer... for there is not one rose that grows on Earth that is without it's share of thorns.

"And upon a day,
while walking among the flowers of his teacher's garden,
did the child speak unto the Mystic:

"Some men claim that this life is the darkness of a curse,
and a punishment to be endured for all our wicked ways.
Oh Mystic, what say you of life?"

And the Mystic answered:

"I say that life is neither a curse nor a punishment,
But a rose filled with the beauty of desire.

The stem of the rose is your life upon this earth,
The thorns, painful lessons you bring unto yourself, that you might learn.

The leaves are those joys that enter your life
with the tenderness of an unseen Love.

Curse not the sorrow of your thorns,
for the deeper they cut unto the heart of your being,
the greener the leaves of joy shall be.

The tiny bud is your soul,
waiting to bloom with the truth of God among its petals.

Slowly will your flower unfold,
that you might not become lost within the fragrance of its secret.

And when the rose is at the height of its beauty,
Shall you not see the pureness of God smiling from the very center of your Being?"

As so it is.

Credits: by Daniel J. Miller from "The Prophet's Candle" and "Compassion" logo by peacemonger.org.