Undoubtedly among God’s most beautiful flowers is the rose. During these summer months we have been enjoying the sight and smell of the roses blooming in our cloister garden.
Probably none of us here can give the precise names of the several varieties of roses we have, but that doesn’t diminish our enjoyment of the flower.
“A rose by any other name would smell as sweet,” says Juliet about her boyfriend from the wrong side of the tracks, Romeo, in William Shakespeare’s play, “Romeo and Juliet.” The saying still holds true.
We continue our prayers for rain and are happy to see some falling during these warm summer afternoons, but more would be most welcome.
With prayers and greetings from us at Christ in the Desert,
Abbot Christian and the monks
