Where the landscape is greening right where I am, there is a great awakening. I’m moved to a realm beyond words, completely absorbed into its beauty. Shades of green electrify pale skies after winter’s wait. Words to encourage hope and white roses bring tranquil glimpses of blooms along with soulful quotes. For me, white roses symbolize an enduring beauty on the earth, ancient forms of life still here growing. I hope they fragrant your journey and comfort you where you are blooming.
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Words to Encourage As We Bloom With the Roses
I never seem to tire of them, these white roses.
Too wedding-like? Too boring or bland?
They look at home absolutely everywhere here…
The everyday is somehow more special, and they remind me there is a profound beauty in the unforever.
Vibrant colors or the faded hues for you?
Do you grow them?
I bow to you if you are a nurturing them in your gardens!
I claim I’m all about the white variety, but then I see these…
or these old fashioned beauties…
and I think good gracious, there is nothing so lovely as a blushing rose.
When everything’s NOT coming up roses…
where do you find your hope?
Because I find myself running low these days, but I have faith.
There was a time I would not be able to admit such truth even to myself. But fooling myself drains too much precious life energy.
I want to live fully while I’m here and grow like these beauties.
So I’ll keep turning toward the light and love,
with reverence for the laws of nature which only seem to console me more as I age.
My work just now is about learning to respect the impersonal nature of such laws holding all things together in wholeness.
Roses have been on earth such a long time. While they aren’t the most ancient flower, fossils found beneath Colorado’s Florissant Fossil Beds suggest a history of 40 million years.
Can we fathom 40 MILLION YEARS?
Doesn’t this history explain their timeless, otherworldly beauty?
They bloom such a short time, yes?
But even after their blooming, they continue to have purpose.
Fruitfulness After a Bloom
After the rose blooms, it produces a fruit called a rose hip.
They are dear to me. Rose hips are rich in vitamin C and used to make herbal teas, jams, jellies, and healing potions for skin.
Maybe you too know this because of the skin condition rosacea.
I wish my rosacea was simply a light pink flush across the cheeks.
Mine is the lumpy, bumpy, uncomfortable version. As I type these words, it is active and inflamed.
But rosehip oil’s antioxidant properties provide a calming effect for rosacea flares.
So you see, even when the beauty of the rose appears to end, its healing mission continues. It is a balm to bring balance and healing.
Such patterns in nature with life, death and resurrection mean more to me than ever.
While our culture remains divided in disturbing fashion along lines of religion, allegiances, and government, I pray for ecological revival and awakening. Who could have imagined years ago we would be so unsure of our survival on earth.
How do you reconcile such societal sickness?
What fuels your hope?
Mary Oliver Poetry
Here’s a gem called BLOSSOM from MARY OLIVER:
“In April the ponds open like black blossoms, the moon swims in every one;
there’s fire everywhere: frogs shouting their desire, their satisfaction.
What we know: that time chops at us all like an iron hoe, that death is a state of paralysis.
What we long for: joy before death, nights in the swale – everything else can wait
but not this thrust from the root of the body.
What we know: we are more than blood – we are more than our hunger
and yet we belong to the moon
and when the ponds open, when the burning begins
the most thoughtful among us dreams of hurrying down into the black petals,
into the fire,
into the night where time lies shattered into the body of another.”
Hello Lovely, Everlasting White Roses
When fresh florals or white roses aren’t available, it’s an opportunity to enjoy the everlasting variety.
If you haven’t shopped for an arrangement lately, you may be surprised by the possibilities.
Silk, dried, and other everlasting artificial roses often look just fine in a clear glass vase or container.
My favorite way to display them is in aged urns or terracotta pots. Antique pots from France can be pricey, so consider thrifting ordinary urns and painting/distressing them to your liking.
Super Easy DIY Plaster Roses
You’ll find all sorts of ways to craft or style with these easy DIY plaster roses.
You can hot glue them to a canvas or simply decorate with them by adding a few to a shelf or a lonely tabletop. Watch YouTube tutorials if you’re not like me and want to wing it!
The basic idea is: buy your favorite artificial roses, remove the flowers from their stems, dip in a mixture of plaster of Paris and water, and let dry. Here’s a lovely tutorial for plaster dipped flower art from the beautiful blog So Much Better With Age:
White Roses Bring Peaceful Beauty to the Everyday
Let’s face it. Nature provides the most beautiful décor to bring inside, and no matter where you place a pitcher of white roses, you create A MEDITATIVE MOMENT. And such moments can transform the everyday, feed the soul, and remind us how everything is sacred.
I hope these simple ideas inspire you to savor roses, flowers, and plants in fresh ways!
While I appreciate this quote below from MULAN, for me, it necessitates an expanded notion of what it is to “bloom.”
Blooming in adversity may not be a picture of ease or readiness for a close-up. It may require a new lens to see it as true opening. As the fully surrendered body of a heartbroken mother, undone on a cold floor, in fervent embodied prayer for her child. Blooming’s posture may be vulnerable, receptive permeability or desperately radiant desire to merge with the lifegiving flow of a river ever flowing. Oh, may we know this flow!
Peace to you right where you are.
-michele
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