一天早上我给自己采了一束芬芳馥郁的玫瑰。这些花儿是那么让人赏心悦目。正当我想着独自欣赏这些玫瑰是如何惬意时，耳畔仿佛听见有人温柔平静地说：“把它送给你的朋友吧。”

 

Hello, Welcome to Faith Radio Online-Simply to Relax, I’m Faith. Fresh flowers are such a lovely thing of beauty. Once in a while I pick a bouquet or a single perfect rose to give to a neighbor, friend or relative.

 

Early one morning I gathered a beautiful bouquet of sweet-smelling long-stemmed roses for myself. The roses were definitely a delight for my eyes. While I thought about how pleasing they were for me to enjoy, a calm, gentle voice outside of myself simply said, Give them to your friend.

 

I went straight into the house and I arranged the roses in a vase. Then I wrote this note as small as I could: For my friend…

 

I went across the street to my neighbor's, who is also one of my closest friends, and I left the bouquet at the front door.

 

Later that day my friend called to thank me. She said the flowers were a true blessing. Late the night before she had been arguing with one of her children, being cruel, as teenagers can sometimes be, her child said to her, "You have no friends."

 

What a surprise when she went to leave for work that morning and found not just the blessings of the bouquet of flowers, but the tiny note which simply said, "For my friend."

 

The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply.

 

I believe the art of living consists not so much in complicatingsimple things as in simplifying things that are not.