Happy Passover

April 5, 2023April 5, 2023Leave a comment

Passover is an annual reminder of liberation, learning, and lifestyle, a repetitive cycle of transcendence.

The rose featured in this photo is ‘Eden’, a climber. May we also reach higher levels as we grow.

Transcend.

Let Go To Grow

April 2, 2021Leave a comment

It is easier to embrace the lies than to surrender to the truth. Realizing you’ve been deceived is an incredibly painful process; nevertheless, the sooner you let go, the sooner you can grow.
#grow #bloom #everbloomingroses #roses #TruthvsLies

Breast Cancer & Domestic Violence Awareness

October 5, 2020Leave a comment

Breast Cancer and Domestic Violence Awareness: May we be ever-blooming despite life’s unexpected pests! #roses #everbloomingroses #overcomers

Update from previous post: A diagnostic mammogram and sonogram revealed today the lump(s) in my breast are normal cysts. Thank you, God!

This rose is a grandiflora known as ‘Fragrant Plum’.

Ever-Blooming During Breast Cancer?

October 2, 2020April 20, 2021Leave a comment

A couple of weeks ago, on Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, the day God defines your upcoming year, I accidentally discovered a large lump in one of my breast. It was early in the morning and my breast itched. While laying there and upon scratching my breast, a large, hard lump made itself known. This upcoming Monday, October 5th, during Sukkot or Feast of Tabernacles, which is all about depending on God during our wilderness journey as well as our eternal home, I have my first of presumably several doctor’s appointments.

Perhaps it is a large cyst, perhaps it is benign, or perhaps it is cancer. Regardless, I have learned to praise God, the One in complete control, the One who ordains each day, each trial, and each triumph. I trust Him and His will even if it doesn’t align with my own.

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month as well as Domestic Violence Awareness. I have already overcome one and helped many others. Perhaps I will be overcoming another. No matter what the doctors, mammograms, and tests say, I have learned to praise God in all circumstances for in doing so, I have experienced peace, contentment, and even joy. That is the real, eternal miracle. Be ever-blooming despite the prickles! If you pray, I appreciate them on my behalf.

Update: As it turned out, the lump I felt was a cluster of cysts and not cancer. Yay God!