A Quiet Little Woman

Girlhood

I don't know if any of you have read "Beautiful Girlhood" by Mabel Hale, but I turn to it quite often for help and understanding.  I love the comparision that she makes to roses and how girls don't just change into women overnight, but girlhood is a gradual opening and changing from a child to a young woman.  Here is the section out of "Beautiful Girlhood" that I mentioned, it's long... but WELL worth the reading!!

"Have you ever watched the development of a rose from the tiny bud to the open flower? The bud held little more promise of beauty than the foliage about it; but day by day it grew until it was full and round. One day you saw a thread of color, promise of the rose to be, peeping through the covering of green. Each morning you saw the thread of color widening until the bud burst asunder and the flower was revealed. You looked upon this bursting bud with admiration and delight, though yet you did not see the rose in its full size and beauty. You had to wait until it was full grown and fully open, till it had reached its maturity, before you could behold the complete flower. But in the opening blossom you had the beauty of the mature rose blended with the grace and charm of the bud.

Girlhood is the opening flower of womanhood. It has charms all its own. The wonderful change from the child to the woman, the marvelous blossoming of young, healthy girlhood, will ever be God’s great miracle in life’s garden." 

I hope that we can help girlhood become more of a joy and less of a time of impatience and drudgery!!! 

Alex

p.s. sorry that the pictures aren't very good!!  I was trying to take some pictures before I went to bed and the rose died!