I work out of my car much of the time so listening to Audio Books has replaced negative politics and talk radio. The last book was a true story by Richard Paul Evans called "Finding Noel." It wasn't negative but God I cried while driving around the city for four hours of that book. Well one hour of it anyway. Richard's Mother died. No one could find him therefore he missed her funeral. That was just the beginning of this four hour story. Richard decided to end his life after losing his scholarship, his job, his fiance of four years, and then his Mother, when a young girl came upon him in the middle of a snow storm. Yes, he fell in love with her. Her name was Macy and her Mother died when she was 6. The Father was a drug addict, therefore she was separated from her baby sister Noel, age 4. Noel was adopted by the prominent family and Macy got beat all the time at her new home. Macy ran away and a woman named Jo saved Macy from a shelter on Thanksgiving years later. (Sure, right, Thanksgiving!) Richard talked Macy into finding her long lost sister......after he was hired to play guitar at the Java Junction where she worked. To cut this short, Jo adopted Macy even tho she was an adult. Jo died of Cancer....Noel found Macy.....they had each been given a Christmas Ornament from their real Mother before she died, with Noel written on it. Noel accidentally broke hers while in college and found a letter from her real Mother inside telling her the truth that her adopted family refused to do. The girls figured their dead Mother made it break. I believe that. Richard found out his Father really wasn't his Father while visiting his Mother's grave. Stu, the stand in "Father" showed Richard a gravestone that belonged to his real Father, and the man his Mother loved all her life. He was killed in Vietnam and was an avid guitar player. (Go figure)
And that is why Stu never treated Richard very well. Ah Ha! Well all ended happy....Macy and Richard married and had three children. What's my point?
And that is why Stu never treated Richard very well. Ah Ha! Well all ended happy....Macy and Richard married and had three children. What's my point?
My dream in life was to help children who needed love by adopting them. I did that for a few years, in fact one of my precious girls graduates this month. People don't realize what these children go through, but I seem to understand.
At the end of Richard's book he said we "fixate on the blossoms.....when its really the thorny stem that keeps the blossom alive." It keeps the plant alive only to get a few blossoms in the course of its life. I say we are the same as the rose ... We have to learn to appreciate the everyday thorns because without them there is no life and would be no blossoms, ever.
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