Taylors Rose, A gift? Options

[Taylorsmum]

Hello.
I just want to share something.

I really love my garden and throughout spring I was planting and landscaping getting all ready for summer.

On the 3rd June we had to let Taylor my beautiful bulldog go.
It has crushed me.
When we returned home I noticed that the first rose on my tree had opened and I was pretty angry about it. Nothing was beautiful anymore. My husband said it's Taylors rose.
I was pretty close to destroying my garden because it seemed obscene that it could start to flourish and look pretty when all I felt was despair.
As days passed I would glance at the rose not really admiring it but feeling it was a reminder.
The last few days the other roses have now opened. They are red. All red, except the first one which is fuscia in colour.
I rang my mum and asked her if roses on the same bush could be a different colour. She told me she didnt think so and had never seen it.

When my husband came home I showed him the rose and asked 'is that a different colour to the rest?' a reality check for me! He said 'yes..why'

I checked out the roses name and they are called 'love knots'.
I have now taken the rose before its petals fall and I am pressing the flower. I will frame it and name it 'Taylor's Rose'.

I asked for a sign that she is somewhere safe and happy. I think I received my sign in a slightly different manner than I was expecting.
When I thought that perhaps my girl sent me a rose I cried a bucket but as a cynic who desperately wants to believe, my strange rose is bringing some comfort.

I like to think she's telling me that she WILL be waiting at Rainbow Bridge.

Think of all those amazing reunions! Peace to you all.

[Juanita]

Dear Taylorsmum and everyone else who believes in signs,

I would like to share the following email that I sent to several friends about a week and a half after I made the awful decision to euthanize my sweet Spike. Spike was a 14ish year-old Border Terrier who'd adopted me from a local shelter in 1992. We were told at the time that Spike was 1-2 years old, putting him at around 16 when he went to heaven. Here is the email.....

Dear friends,
I am sending this to people with whom I feel spiritually connected. Even if your belief about signs from beyond differs from mine, I know that you will appreciate and respect the experience I am about to describe.

Several years after my cousin Lynda, a total animal lover, went to heaven, I asked for and received a message from her about ET, a dear departed shelter dog. There was no doubt about the sign Lynda sent assuring me that little ET was with her. Ever since, whenever I or anyone close to me loses a pet, I ask Lynda to look after them.

You all know how much I loved my Spike and how much I miss him. After putting him to rest on May 23rd, I anxiously awaited word from Lynda but heard nothing...and I didn't want to "bother" her by asking for confirmation of what I should have already known. But still....

On Saturday, June 8, I awoke with as strong a feeling of sadness as the day we'd said good-bye to Spike. I began to cry and couldn't stop. This time I spoke directly to Spike, asking him to please let me know that he was alright.

On Sunday I opened an email from a friend who had forwarded a little movie called "The Best Day of My Life". I'd read the text before, but it was even more meaningful in this format.

Before leaving the site, I saw an option to view a list of other movies they offered. I clicked on the category called Life's Trials hoping to find something to shake the sadness and uncertainty I felt about Spike's wellbeing.

As I recall, there were at least ten titles in that section, but one stood out as if it were printed in neon. I clicked onto Letter from Heaven and got the sign I needed. I'd like to share it with you....

View this beautiful movie at
http://www.InspiringThots.net/movie/letter-heaven.php