I got this beautiful rose from Lira and I wanna pass this on to everyone on my blogroll. So if you'd like to post this on your blog, you're more than welcome to grab it. Also, i'm including the following poem by Evelyn Irvin as it talks about the symbolic rose in the Bible.
The Rose of Sharon
by Evelyn Locke Irvin
by Evelyn Locke Irvin
I was living in an empty desert with no meaning to my life,
Then one day I found this beautiful Rose of Sharon, who is the living Christ.
And this lovely Rose forever blooms;
Its sweet fragrance has filled all my rooms.
It has no thorns; they've all been taken away,
I know this Rose is here to stay.
It brightens all my days, and is my dearest friend.
On this never changing Rose I can trust and depend.
This divine Rose of Sharon is so perfect and fair,
And it brings me peace, and love, and joy beyond compare.
Such a calm content feeling it sends,
Each heartache and pain it always mends.
I know in this life perfection I will never attain,
But since this Rose has left it's fragrance on me, I have never been the same,
And as I share this fragrance with those in need I see,
This beautiful Rose of Sharon will bloom in me.
"I am the rose of Sharon, and the lily of the valleys." (Solomon 2:1)
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