Rose and Brier
Topic : Reformed TheologyOnce there was a brier growing in a ditch and there came along a gardener with his spade. As he dug around it and lifted it up the brier said to itself, What is he doing? Doesnt he know I am a worthless brier? But the gardener took it into his garden and planted it amid his flowers, while the brier said, What a mistake he has made planting me among these beautiful roses. Then the gardener came once more and made a slit in the brier with his sharp knife. He grafted it with a rose and when summer came lovely roses were blooming on that old brier. Then the gardener said, Your beauty is not due to what came out but to what I put in.