Watering Sticks........

How many times have you ever bought or received a flowering plant as a gift?  It's in full bloom, the flowers are at their peak.  Sometimes we enjoy them while they are looking good and put the effort in to keep them alive.  Other times due to our lack of interest they shrivel and die due to neglect.

Love and Relationships are very much like this.  As single people, our eye is captured by someone in bloom and we gravitate toward their beauty and fragrance.  We spend time and put in the effort to water and feed them, but eventually the bloom withers and dies.  Is the plant dead? No, but what attracted us to the plant is no longer visible. 

Those that are truly committed continue to take care of the plant, knowing that in time it will bloom again.  They know that care and attention will make the plant grow stronger and mature and it will put out even more blooms than each time before. 

One of the worst things a person could do in a relationship is neglect the basic necessities to sustain it.  Care and attention.   Sometimes when the neglect has gone on for awhile you are able to salvage what remains.  You dig in and really give it your all, and deep down there still life there nestled within the dirt just waiting for what it needs to bloom once again.

Other times, the neglect has gone on too long and no matter how much you try to water and feed the dead looking stick, it will forever be just that, a dead stick.

If you're lucky enough to have someone trust you with their heart, remember that even when it's  not visible, the bloom is there.  Don't neglect the life within.  Even when it just looks like a stick, continue to water and give it attention and soon it will bloom again.......