Today’s edition is a story told my colleague and friend, Dr. Drew Henderson, a principled Chiropractor in Murrayville, Ga. www.murrayvilledc.com
Have you ever seen a Jericho Rose? It looks like a balled-up fist of small tumbleweed, dry and brittle as a closed mind. Its spindly, tightly curled branches wear the mask of death, and its tiny bundle of roots seems hardly enough to have held it in place anywhere at all. The Jericho Rose seems to be a sun-baked corpse of a desert weed.
A patient of mine brought me one of these pitiful plants to the office one afternoon. She had just got back from seeing her son that lives in the Southwest United States. She fished it out of her plastic Ingle’s bag as I was adjusting and I thought to myself, “Has this lady lost it? Why is she bringing me a dead plant?”
She asked me if I had some water and I got her some. She poured the water in a saucer and said “O.K.” then she laid down to be checked. After adjusting her she raised up and she and I hugged like we always do then the phone started to ring incessentantly and my seating was filling up in the office with people. I looked over at the flower, it was still dead and brittle. I thought to myself, “I will throw that thing out when I get a chance.”
I got busy that afternoon and sat the plant back on my office desk. By the time I was finished for the day I had forgotten about the dead plant she had brought me. I looked once and I had to look again! The rose had spread its scraggly little branches and it was continuing to unfurl and was even getting a bit greener. The plant was Selaginella lepidophylla. This plant is often kept dormant in the home — sometimes handed down through the generations — and brought out at Christmas time, along with the Christmas decorations, to blossom for a while and adorn the Christmas table, and then close, all symbolizing the opening and closing of Mary’s womb.
Sometimes it’s all too easy for you and I to neglect and set aside important time for ourselves and for The Principle. After awhile, we begin to dry up and our faith and our lives can get as dry and shriveled as a desert plant. But within each of us is the Breath of Life, and by grace, it can be awakened, as the gift of water awakens the Jericho Rose. The Principle will awaken you if you allow it and desire it. It is time for you, your friends and family to be awakened to LIFE through The Principle.
