The Blue Rose

For years I became involved with men who were all wrong for me…my relationships were full of pain. One day I decided to pray. “God, I don’t know how to pick the right partner, so please, please choose for me…and God, just so I’m sure to know who you’ve chosen, let him somehow present me with a blue rose.”

Every day after that I let go of a little more control and opened a little more to God loving me and choosing the right person for me.  And every day I looked for my blue rose.  One day I attended a networking luncheon where Alan Cohen was speaking about the power each of us has to bless another human being. When he invited us all to do a blessing exercise I found myself standing face-to-face with a young blue-eyed man. We joined hands and gazed into each other’s eyes and blessed one another.  After the exercise ended and we returned to our seats, I felt like I was in a daze. A few minutes later, the young man turned back to me and introduced himself. “I’m David Rose,” he said. I knew then that God himself had presented me with my blue-eyed Rose. A year later David and I were married.

~~Brenda Rose
    From A Cup of Chicken Soup for the Soul™
    Text © 1996 Brenda Rose

Blue roses will blossom in the snow, before I ever let you go, Blue roses will grow up to the sky, before I ever make you cry...