TOL “To Scatter Flowers” (pg 289) Language of flowers an ancient metaphor for transcendent ideas. TOL famously promises, “a shower of roses”. Written a year before her painfully suffering death from TB, her DNS, she uses the metaphor of flowers as her language of love speaking to God and things she “offers up” to God.

Stumbling block for some the language of flowers, can sound syrupy

Decipher TOL language of flowers, offering up suffering, DNS

ICS Institute of Carmelite Studies very helpful to orient understanding

Flower girl at every wedding, counted the radicalness the separation of the petal from the stem.

Her self-recognizing through her suffering to pluck the flower from the stem. Intense pain separation from the flower from the root.

Charming metaphor as well, Doctor of the Church.

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