Post by Cj Avery on Aug 4, 2012 19:04:22 GMT -8
"A Rose and a Prayer"
It has been said; that a diamond is forever .....but the rose is a forever thing, also. The rose has beauty one time but lasts a lifetime and it cannot be duplicated it is always one of a kind. I don't know if the family knows it or not but there is also the anointing of the roses.
I first met the Rose Lady a year ago, she is quiet,refined,loving, very kind, and beautiful from the inside to the outside, she is very special. She also has a great since of humor. She never asked for special treatment and never had a unkind word for anybody. I started praying for this beautiful person a year ago. Her prayer request was for healing; in fact she was healed. She was one of the most beautiful women you could met. She regained her strength and went home. I continued to pray for her and almost a year went by before I saw her again she walked into the hospital and was a picture of radiant beauty, her husband was ill this time and she supported him through his illness and helped her children. She loves her daughter and son very much and the rest of the family even though they became part of her family through marriage. Everyone loved the Rose Lady even friends she knew no strangers. She asked me to continue to pray for her and I did. I asked her what she wanted me to pray for and she said healing. We discussed this for a while and after sometime, she told me; "there is healing above this earth also she said, it is in Heaven isn't it?" I stated; "everyone is healed in Heaven."
Her son in law came to the nurses station and wanted to know if he could put a piece of plywood on the other hospital bed to cover the bed, the nurse wanted to know what for and he stated; " I have called all of my mother in laws friends and family and we are going to shower her with roses. He said; " a rose and a prayer from every person." The idea was his sisters. He even kept it a secret from his wife for a while. His sister also helped make the telephone calls. I kept thinking how beautiful. All of the staff could hardly wait until the next day.
The next day early in the morning the roses and prayers started arriving by the afternoon the room was full of roses; of every shape, kind, color, and size. Most of them were live and some silk. By mid afternoon she had over a hundred roses, by that evening over two hundred. The hospital bed was covered from the top to the end of the bed and also the window sills and the floor. The smell was so beautiful you could smell it all up and down the hall way. Visitors and other patients stopped at her doorway and looked in and were amazed at all the flowers and the prayers. The Rose Lady was very thrilled; she laughed, cried, and joked, and smiled she was in fact beaming she out shined the beauty of the roses. I stated you must know a lot of people and she said; " I have never known a stranger and I always treat people with kindness, the way I want to be treated." She stated that she enjoyed every person she met.
Her daughter took some of the roses and had them freeze dried and sealed in picture frames for the family and the Rose Lady, they looked beautiful in the frames and what a beautiful tribute to the family. The roses started to wilt and since my daughter was getting married they gave some of the roses to me for the petals. At the wedding I felt as if the Rose Lady was there that she was thrilled being able to bless a wedding with such beautiful rose petals.
The Rose Lady regained some of her strength and got to go home, she wanted dearly to go home and she did. Her daughter sat with her all this time and son and son in law, what a loving family. I shall always treasure this memory as many people will. The anointing of the rose " A Rose and a Prayer."
The first part of June the Rose Lady went to heaven, I can see her as an angel taking care of all the flowers in Heaven. Though she will be missed by everyone at the hospital and by all her many friends and family I know that she is healed and very much loved in Heaven and that we will meet again for she is not in my past but in my future. Every time I see a rose or smell one I will always have the loving memory of the beautiful Rose Lady. The day she went to heaven my miniature rose bushes started blooming like mad, and all I could think of was her and her beautiful loving family. It is as if she was saying, the rose is a forever thing, it has beauty one time but lasts a lifetime and it cannot be duplicated it is always one of a kind. I agree yes it is a lifetime memory. I shall miss you very much.
During the funeral, the daughter told me the most beautiful rainbow appeared, she said it was as though Mom was saying:"I made it, I am Home."
After all.........Christ Jesus; is The Rose of Sharon......
This testimony was written with the permission of the family and their blessings.
Spirit Walker