Inexhaustable Sweetness

Walking through a friend's rose garden the other day ... this one opened to greet my lens:

In my in-box this morning, a quote from my friend Liz:

"There is in all things an inexhaustible sweetness and purity, a silence that is a fount of action and joy. It rises up in wordless gentleness and flows out to me from the unseen roots of all created being, welcoming me tenderly, saluting me with indescribable humility."

~ from Thomas Merton's poem, Hagia Sophia.