Did you stop and smell the roses as you walked through the Valley of Death and Despair?

All I can say is WOW!



HAHA, love this question. To be able to see beauty in your deepest depths of despair would be an amazing talent I wish I had.



Beauty is all around.....Just look at the clouds, waves, birds, flowers. Beauty is everywhere, the hardest part is recognising it when you're down.



Nature is one of my biggest comforts. The flowers after the fire! Nature always blossoms after despair.

Did you stop and smell the roses as you walked through the Valley of Death and Despair?
Yes, they took my mind off where I was.

What are the roses in your valley.....Are you there now?
Reply:at first i was going to write, i didn't have roses to smell. but the truth is, i just didn't see them when i walked in.
Reply:ohh, is that the new place near camden market in london? i've heard of it...
Reply:Yes, I always try to find the good in times of despair it is the only thing that makes everything better.
Reply:Yeah all the time it was the only good thing in that place, I guess thats why they kicked me out lol
Reply:One day I took a hike thought the Valley of Death (Nevada), and there the smell of the roses makes me a despairing one.

Today I do not stop smelling roses through decayed places (when the roses used once to smell good).
Reply:I always do but many of them don't have any perfume anymore. Seems they're hybrids for show and tell. Give me wild roses on the evening breeze and I'll fly all night. Straight on 'til morning where I'll sleep in a meadow with kittens and butterflies.
Reply:Do you mean "Through the valley of the shadow of death?"



I know that it is sometimes hard to see the silver lining when the dark clouds of despair, grief and remorse block ones ability to believe that better things could be ahead.

All is not lost and one can always start again.



Sometimes one should not be expected to feel joy when a tornado has just destroyed your home. But regroup and begin again is most fitting.

here is a rose for you as you travel any valley @%26gt;-,-'-,-'-,---

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Reply:I love the line from Tears for Fears 'Break it down again'

It refers to (I'm sure not original) phrase of the 'beauty of decay'.



So, as to your question, Yes, I did. Beauty is wherever you stop and look for it. You just have to look hard enough. And in a place of death and despair, to find a sign of beauty would truly be comforting.



Peace
Reply:No. But I remembered what they smelled like and that brought me back to where they grow and I can smell them any time I want.
Reply:no. i carried my roses with me from my garden. there is no life in the valley of death and despair. only death and sorrow
Reply:No. I held my nose and tried not to retch. The stench was

everywhere and I was without hope.
Reply:no, but i did look up %26amp; see the silver linning around the dark cloud..
Reply:I can always find the lesson (rose) in the despair.









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Reply:NO ...dusted my self down and walked out of the valley of death and despair ..smelt life ...life is not a bed of roses ..
Reply:No. I stopped for nothing. I was sliding down with all my senses numbed and it was too dark to see anything. But somehow I managed to do whatever was required of me, almost like a robot. And then, miraculously I found peace after going through personal hell for one full year. Who wiped my tears? Who put balm on my aching heart? Certainly not another human. I am too insignificant to unravel the mysteries of God and nature but to this day I wonder what forces were working overtime to bring solace to a lost soul!!!



Apparently, I didn't stop for the roses (I was oblivious of their very existence) but the roses stopped by for me until I smelled them, and revived myself....
Reply:Yes. I still had roses blooming here until a few days ago. I think there still might be one pink one left, but the bush is about 8 feet tall now (too hyper from being fed Starbucks coffee grounds). Smelling the roses is aways better than sniffing the rotting carcasses.
Reply:No, I picked a whole bouquet for the creator (speedily) hoping he might rethink sending me to the wrong place. I am such a brown noser!
Reply:Yes. I smelled the blue rose that I bought for our deceased son

just before I dropped it gently onto his casket after it was lowered into the ground.
Reply:I have only been through the valley of death with others on their trip. Yeah, we did stop to smell the roses. If we hadn't it would have been a trip through hell instead it was peacefull.

You have to make the best out of the worst situations in order to make it tolerable somethimes.

It is harder to smell the roses on the trip through despair, though, for some reason.

I haven't figured out why.
Reply:Always... actually I didnt do too much walking
Reply:yes. how else am i to not drop dead from the sheer horrors of the valley? of course, however, by smelling the roses i am not blinding myself or stalling myself from the gaping holes before me.



as for not caring for hte roses in your valley of death and despair. if you mention that there are roses before, there must be seeds. plant those and take care of those.
Reply:If the roses are the people in my life, then yes. Although I don't (usually) sniff them, I do love them and do not neglect to tell them so.
Reply:Yes. In previous walks though varied personal valleys of death and despair, they were, sometimes, all that kept me going...



The fresh air seemed to cleanse my lungs, pretty flowers dried my eyes, a picturesque setting let just enough light into my mind and heart so that I could see some hope again.
Reply:Ya!

Well....actually it all started with the smelling of the roses....causing a bee sting........causing an allergic reaction......hence.......the walk through the Valley.

sigh.
Reply:Beauty is imperceptible there.
Reply:Suppose I can never stop, not too long anyhow, to smell down their Death, but I've felt the despair, and I've flew above the entire Valley, recently.

BUT, as far as I know, I'll never STOP to live in such places_

Farewell, and do what you can do (always more !?).



Do you know both Valleys? The Death one - I knew it for more than three years (once in a life time), and The Despair one just for let's say half of the last year (once in a life time). Between them I've found the beauty of the deep sky, all alone (again for once in a life time). Enough! Too much work to do by yourself! It's too much.

WHAT for should someone rest in those places?

What for?
Reply:Yes, I did stop and smell the roses. But they never smelled as good as they do now that I'm out of the Valley of Death and Despair.

They CAN'T smell as good. Nothing can be as good when you're down and out..

But that time down can help you to put into perspective the absolute JOY you feel when you are free of the constraints of that awful place.
Reply:You mean even in the worst times in my life did i still notice and thank God for all the things that i still have and not focus so much on the negative things in my life....if so then yes i smelt the roses and i always will.
Reply:Of course. And when I pricked myself with the thorns, I just licked away the blood and went on, because I had already known the thorns would be there.

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