Trust

I like this poem. So many times we try to figure out where we should be or what we should be doing next. We simply need to trust in His leadership, listen to His voice and follow where He leads.



"It is only a tiny rosebud,

A flower of God's design;

But I cannot unfold the petals

with these clumsy hands of mine."



"The secret of unfolding flowers

Is not known to such as I.

GOD opens this flower so esily,

But in my hands they die."



If I cannot unfold a rosebud,

This flower of God's design,

Then how can I have the wisdom

To unfold this life of min?"



"So I'll trust in Good for leading

Each moment of my day.

I will look to God for guidance

In each step of the way."



"The path that lies before me,

Only my Lord knows.

I'll trust God to unfold the moments,

just as He unfolds the rose."



~ Charlie Gilchrist

Mother's Day Trivia

Do you know what flower symbolizes Mother's Day? It's the carnation!

Carnations have been associated with Mother's Day for a very long time. According to Christian legend, a carnation sprang up when Jesus Christ's mother, Mary, shed tears of distress seeing her son enduring sufferings on the cross. Then in 1907, Anna Jarvis used carnations at the first Mother's Day celebration because they were her mother's favourite flowers. Anna Jarvis handed out 500 carnations at her mother's church, St. Andrew's Methodist Episcopal Church in Grafton, West Virginia - one for each mother in the congregation.

White carnations are used to honour a mother who is deceased, while red or pink carnations symbolize the feelings of affection for a mother who is living.

Just as I have for decades, I will pin my rose to my bosom as I go off to church this Sunday. Since 1997, I have been wearing a white rose.