beautiful creation, yet not in full bloom. The tests were still there, but now of a different sort. As with anything new, once accustomed and again beaten in the match with patience, I grew. One by one my petals relaxed and unfolded. The Rose, as I envisioned it, has been recreated to capture things I had not foreseen. Today, the Rose is more beautiful than I could ever have imagined, as it had been planned from the beginning.
The Rose does not stop, and it is never at rest. For from a rose comes a seed, comes a stem, comes more thorns, comes another rose. And from that rose comes a seed, comes a stem, come more thorns, comes yet another rose. Each year that passes, another rose is added and over time. The Rose becomes the Rose Garden that it would be!
So plant your seeds with care for you are the seed that forms a rose that forms a garden that forms a bouquet that will be given as a gift to other people.