"It's Alive!", update

I was looking back at the titles of posts I've made over the past year or so, and came across one that I titled "It's ALIVE!!", about a rosebush I rescued from someone else's yard and replanted twice (once in crappy, clay soil and then in Miracle Gro potting soil).

Well, it grew, but it didn't bloom that year. Oh, and it was replanted a THIRD time, since we did some major redecorating in the backyard (aka adding about 4 feet of fill dirt) and therefore moved it to the front yard. It got settled in again, and did bloom quite nicely back in April. (All the blooms have since lived their life and been snipped off...hoping the bush will produce another set of blooms this year, but not holding my breath.)

Well, here is an updated picture that I had also sent to Yuni (I had sent her the baby-leaf pic, and told her I'd send her another when it had flowers).



















I don't know just how much of a green thumb I have; I'm crediting the survival of this rosebush with a hardiness innate to its species.

But, as with my original post on the subject, I still can't help but find a bit of similarity between my feeble attempts at gardening and the tremendously greater benefits of child sponsorship. While it may take longer than one year for a particular child to "bloom", to come out of his/her shell that had been formed by years of living in poverty and living under the lie that he/she doesn't matter, and all the various circumstances of the children served by Compassion, if we persist in showing these children the love that God has for them, they will grow up to live lives that surpass anyone's expectations for them.

Will you consider joining the ranks of those that give the extra TLC that these buds need in order to bloom, to fulfill their potential?