Our duty in this world is to help others by showing them their roses and not their thorns.
A man planted a rose and watered it faithfully, and before
it blossomed, he examined it. He saw the bud would soon blossom-out but also
the thorns. And he thought, "How can any beautiful flower come from a
plant burdened with so many sharp thorns?"
Saddened by this thought, he neglected to water the rose, and before it was
ready to bloom, it died. So it is with many people. Within every soul there is
a rose. The God-like qualities planted in us at birth grow amid the thorns of
our faults. Many of us look at ourselves and see only the thorns, the defects.
We despair, thinking that nothing good
can possibly come from us. We neglect to water the good within us, and
eventually it dies. We never realize our potential.
Some people do not see the rose within themselves; someone else must show it to
them. One of the greatest gifts a person can possess is to be able to reach
past the thorns and find the rose within others. This is the characteristic of
love: to look at a person and, knowing his faults, recognize the nobility in
his soul and help him realize that he can overcome his faults. If we show him
the rose, he will conquer the thorns. Then will he blossom, blooming forth
thirty, sixty, a hundred-fold as it is given to him.
Our duty in this world is to help others by showing them their roses and not
their thorns. Only then can we achieve the love we should have for each other;
only then can we bloom in our own garden.
“I have shown you all things, how that your laboring ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of our Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.”
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