"Reminder"


I have recently come across a story and I share it with you here as a reminder to do what is right in every moment, without delay, regardless of how inconvenient this may be. A man stopped at a flower shop to order some flowers to be wired to his mother who lived two hundred miles away. As he got out of his car he noticed a young girl sitting on the curb sobbing. He asked her what was wrong and she replied "I wanted to buy a rose for my mother, but I only have seventy-five cents. A rose costs two dollars." The man smiled and said, "Come on in with me. I'll buy you a rose." He bought the little girl her rose and ordered his own mother's flowers. As they were leaving he offered the girl a ride home. She said, "Yes please! You can take me to my mother." She directed him to a cemetary, where she placed the rose on a freshly covered grave. After he left the girl, the man returned to the flower shop, cancelled the wire order, picked up a bouquet and drove two hundred miles to his mother's house.