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The Christmas Rose - Rev. Ken Mettler
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 The Christmas Rose

The sweetest flower that heaven knows
Was sent to us - a perfect rose.

It was planted with care in the early spring,
The time when all the robins sing.

It buddend and grew in the sun's strong rays,
It enjoyed friends laughter in the early days.

It sprang forth with grace -as roses do;
Growing in every direction it knew.

By summer its folliage was in full view,
But something more special was coming, too..

In June is when the blossoms came,
So lovely, each were given a name.

The autumn was was a spendid season
When its flowers were shard for any reason.

Many came to share the joy,
Many a girl and many a boy.

The more it gave, the more it grew,
The more it grew, the more it knew...

That life was made for sharing,
And with each offering -caring!

Its life was a gift for all to see,
Its love was a gift for you and me.

The winter came and felt so long.
The leaves fell off, -it looked so wrong.

But winter has a funny way
Of hiding life, as some may say.

The exterior of the rose was dead,
But life is in the flower bed.

Its spring again.

The sweetest flower that heaven knows,
Is now in heaven, -a perfect rose.

And flowers grow quickly in the garden of heaven.
Already a bloom to the Lord is given.

Ward's planding a garden for us over there.
Make plans to be with him, this beauty to share.


 


notes:  wrote this poem in memory of my friend, Ward.  He was a very positive person and the best gardener I've known. His specialty was flowers; wonderful flowers.  His flowers were planted in love for us, his friends.  He enjoyed them and he knew everyone else would too.  Ward died druing the Christmas season, hence, the name of the poem.

You may notice that my poems are mostly about people.  That's because the only thing we can take with us from this life are our friends who, because of their faith, are headed were we are going!

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