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Simplicity is sometimes all one needs to help their day feel better and go smoothly, you can find all that here at Bibbs Flowers and Gifts located in Gainesville Ga. 770-538-5002

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  For the love of Roses.. What a great idea, A Food Basket… Send a fruit and flower combo..  Other Funeral Gift Ideas–Florist In Gainesville GA., An extremely great set up for the loss of a loved one, fruit and flowers combo sent any time from a Florist In Gainesville Ga., . can go to the home for the family, a very personal way of saying that you are thinking of them and how much you care. A comfort basket, Just another way of paying your respects. Peace Lilies are always a good idea… Just Go To  http://www.yourflowergirl.com

When Are Sympathy Plants Appropriate?

When Are Sympathy Plants Appropriate?
Sending plants from a local Gainesville Florist as an expression of your sympathy is always appropriate, no matter what your relationship to the deceased and no matter when you send your gift. After the commotion and distraction of the funeral services are past, it can be comforting for your loved ones to receive a reminder that they are still in your thoughts.
If you choose to send plants immediately upon hearing of the sad event, you may opt to send your gift to the memorial service or directly to the home. Both choices provide beauty and comfort. Often, families will bring plants sent to memorial services home afterwards.
 

Sending Plants to Memorial Services
Plants can bring a feeling of peace and life to memorial services. They serve as a tangible statement of sympathy and support for the bereaved. Plants are appropriate for many different types of memorial services, including visitations, cremations, and traditional funeral services. After the service is over, plants are also easy for the family members to bring back home. As their journey through grief progresses, family members can continue to appreciate your tribute to their loved one and to feel your sympathy.
A plant given in sympathy may also be planted at the gravesite, adding beauty to the site and providing a reminder of hope and support to all who visit the gravesite in time to come.
Choosing the Right Plant
Any type of green or flowering plant can be appropriate as a sympathy gift. The most popular and traditional type of plant sent to express sympathy is the peace lily, or peace plant. If you are aware of a particular type of plant that the recipient favors, this may be an excellent choice for your sympathy gift.
Your Flower Girl offers a variety of sympathy plants to help you offer comfort and support on this sad occasion. Each plant we offer is an appropriate and thoughtful expression of sympathy whoever the recipient and whenever you choose to send it. No matter what type of plant you choose, you can rest assured that we will deliver it with exceptional care and attention. Your gift will arrive fresh and beautiful, bringing your message of comfort and sympathy.

Please call on us with any further questions at 770-205-0400

Sympathy Florist from Gainesville Ga–770-538-5002

A Sympathy For A Gainesville GA. Funeral

When you order funeral flowers from Your Flower Girl Florist, a skilled and compassionate florist works directly with the funeral home to ensure that your delivery is timely and accurate. Same-day delivery is often available  You can also arrange to have sympathy flowers delivered to the family home.

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Funeral & Sympathy Flowers

All of our funeral flowers are hand-arranged and hand-delivered by a professional Floral Designer, same-day delivery is often available. Even if you can’t be there in person, your funeral flower delivery will be a warm reminder that your thoughts are with family and friends.  Preparing for a funeral can be a stressful time for everyone involved. Let us create a lovely display of funeral flowers and greenery that will show your devotion and honor the departed. Our funeral flower arrangements express your sympathy beautifully, whether you’re sending sympathy flowers for the home or a standing spray for the funeral service. We offer a wide selection of funeral floral arrangements that celebrate a life well lived and loved.

Commemorate your loved one with a funeral flower arrangement from  Your Flower Girl Florist, .  When words escape us, the beauty of funeral flowers offers comfort to family and serves as a tribute to the departed. In addition to our funeral floral arrangements, we have put together helpful guides on writing sympathy cards and funeral etiquette to help you express your condolences.

Fall–Autumn | Tropical Flowers

 

Fall–Autumn | Tropical Flowers

Fall–Autumn | Tropical Flowers – Tropical highlights balance with lush earth tones to offer hope and encourage reflection – a vivid spray for a funeral or A table top tropical flower arrangement that expresses deep and generous gratitude or love.

A breathtaking assortment of flowers such as yellow asiatic lilies with orange orchids and roses, red gladioli and protea, and yellow chrysanthemums, delivered on an easel.

Florist In Buford GA. | 770-614-6888

 

     

Florist In Buford GA. 770-614-6888

Buford Florist  provides flower and gift delivery to the Buford, GA area. Send flowers for any occasion. We offer a large variety of fresh flowers and gifts.

Bouquets so Beautiful, You’ll Wonder Witch One to Send. we send same day delivery the Warm Fall Wishes Bouquet in Buford GA. We send all sorts of

plants and gift baskets too.

Customized Funeral Designs–Gainesville Ga.

 

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The culture in which has also many beliefs as to what is or is not appropriate for the receiving of Flowers. What type of Flowers verses the out come of the arrangement itself. This is huge when it comes to Customizing Your Design–Funerals

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we may call it one thing , such as a Funeral Spray, in our culture and that would be a correct term although in other cultures it may not be called the same terminology and may not even be appropriate at all. Different rituals call for different beliefs and ban many things that we Americans’ may otherwise deem appropriate. To be certain of others, if you have never attended out side your own culture or religion, we (Florist in Gainesville Ga.) can help put things into perspective for you.

Either way, Customizing Your Design–Funerals, we are very good at what we do. We take all religions and cultures into consideration before we begin our funeral pieces. You may call us at 770-538-6083

Autumn Equals Thanksgiving Flowers–Gainesvile Ga.

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Now that Thanksgiving is just around the corner, what better time to examine the things for which we are most thankful? And what better or craftier way to show it than by creating a “Thankful for” leaf bouquet? With a few inexpensive items, you can turn this craft into something the whole family can not only share in, but also create together. Call us and purchase your lowers by the bundle and save by enjoying the craft of designing with our entire family.

Roses From A Florist In Gainesville GA.

 

How To Care For Roses

How To Care For Roses

If Your Roses Arrived In Their Own Vase Or Other Container – How To Care For Roses

How To Care For Roses


Check the water supply immediately. Add room temperature water as needed. Avoid water from a water softener. For best results, use floral preservative, if provided. Mix the preservative with room temperature water, in the proportion recommended on the package.
Display your roses in a cool location, out of direct sunlight or drafts, and away from electrical appliances .
Check your arrangement daily to make sure it has plenty of clear, fresh water. If the water appears cloudy after a couple of days, replace it completely.
If some roses should start to droop their heads prematurely, it may be due to air trapped in the stems. Re-cut the stems underwater, most times this is a god idea. Then, let the roses float on the water surface with the stem ends below water and the rose heads in a straightened position. In many cases, the roses will revive and harden within about an hour, ready to be returned to your arrangement.

 

 

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If You Plan To Display Your Roses In Your Own Container

Remove any water vials which may have been shipped with your roses. These provide only a temporary water source during delivery. However, do not remove floral wires which may have been attached to individual rose stems. These provide helpful support for some roses.

Remove any leaves which will be below water, being careful not to scrape or cut through the green bark of the stems. Air may enter stems at such injuries, blocking water uptake.

Prepare a deep vase or other container with an ample supply of lukewarm water. Avoid water from a water softener. Be sure to use a clean container, and, for best results, include floral preservative, if provided. Mix the preservative with room temperature water, in the proportion recommended on the package. Floral preservative provides sugars, balances pH, and limits bacterial growth.

Fill a sink or wide container with several inches of warm water. While holding each stem under water, cut about one inch diagonally off the end with a sharp knife or shears. Place the roses in your container before the stems dry off. If floral foam is used, saturate it thoroughly, and insert stems firmly.

Gently remove any outermost petals which may have been bruised during shipping. Removing a few petals will not damage a blossom and will often help it open more fully.

Display your roses in a cool location, out of direct sunlight or drafts, and away from electrical appliances (for safety and to avoid heat.) Then, check your arrangement daily to make sure it has plenty of clear, fresh water. If the water appears cloudy after a couple of days, replace it completely.

If some roses should start to droop their heads prematurely, it may be due to air trapped in the stems. Recut the stems underwater as described above. Then, let the roses float on the water surface with the stem ends below water and the rose heads in a straightened position. In many cases, the roses will revive and harden within about an hour, ready to be returned to your arrangement.

Some Of Our Funeral Designs–And Proper Etiquette

 

Funeral Flower Etiquette – Funeral Plants Sent Same Day Delivery–Gainesville GA.

Funeral flowers and sympathy plants are usually sent to the funeral home, chapel or Home.  Proper Funeral Flower Etiquette is to deliver to Funeral homes and churches before the “wake,” “visitation” or calling hours, where friends and family gather to pay their respects and tributes to the family. Proper funeral flower etiquette is indeed showing proper respect to the morning of the immediate family. Be certain to check with family and or the Funeral home for proper timing and dates. If you are late in sending flowers and can not have flowers arrive in time for the first visitation it is still appropriate to send funeral flowers or a living funeral plant to the home of the family.  Some people insist upon sending last minute funeral flower orders to the funeral home or church and some people insist upon having last minute funeral flower deliveries made directly to the graveside service. This is not considered proper etiquette, it can be done although you must realize that once the services have begun, the gift of remembrance will be set aside until such services have come to completion, as not to disrupt the services (family). In many instances, last minute funeral flower orders can become lost in the commotion of the funeral service and in other instances funeral directors will not accept last minute flower deliveries. Most times they do.

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Fear Not! A Savior Is Born

by Dr. Ralph F. Wilson
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“Fear not! Do not be afraid!” The angel spoke these words to Zachariah, to Mary, to Joseph, and finally to a group of shepherds on a hillside near Bethlehem.

“Do not be afraid; for behold I bring you good news of great joy for all the people: to you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, who is the Messiah, the Lord.”1

Do Not Be Afraid

Fear has a way of tying our stomachs up in knots, paralyzing our thinking, inducing panic. Fear, and its cousin worry, can capture our hearts when we see ourselves caught in a vortex of disasters beyond our control.

In the Sermon on the Mount Jesus talks about tiny, defenseless sparrows in the context of fear and worry:

“Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink… Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?”2

In another place he reassures his followers:

Don’t be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows.”3

Fear Drives a Downward Spiral

During this Christmas 2008 the entire world is caught in the grip of an economic down-spiral. Houses are being foreclosed on. People are losing jobs. Factories are closing. Food costs in some countries have risen 25%.

More and more you glimpse a kind of bleak fear in people’s eyes. Will I lose my house? My job? What will become of us if this recession deepens into a depression? How will I feed my family?

Though it’s been quoted so often that it’s become a clich�, Franklin Delano Roosevelt spoke these words to a nation at the depth of the Great Depression:

“Let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself — nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.”4

Fear can grip us, choke all faith out of our hearts. Fear also drives economic depression. Fear causes companies to contract and people to stop buying. It causes runs on banks and panic on Wall Street. FDR reminded a nation that fear itself constitutes a large part of the problems we face.

It was as true in 1933 as it was on the first Christmas.

On the First Christmas

For on that first Christmas, the world was in desperate times, too. A census is being conducted in order to raise already high taxes. Murderous, paranoid Herod the Great is king of the Jews. It is winter on Bethlehem’s hillsides — and cold. Inside a cave in the town sit a poverty-stricken carpenter and his young wife — far from home, chilled to the bone. She is in labor. Her child will be born in a stable, of all places. Why is it like this? she may have asked.

And then she recalls an echo of the angel’s words to her, “Do not be afraid, Mary….”5

A Savior Is Born

On the windswept hillsides outside of town, shepherds are huddling, too. All of a sudden the sky lights up and an angel proclaims:

“Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.”6

Fear not. The shepherds’ fear is turned to joy as they hear news that a Savior is born. The Messiah! In Bethlehem, the city of David himself!

And so they run down the hillsides into the town and hurry from stable to stable until they find the Child in the manger, just as they have been told. Tucked in that manger, wrapped in swaddling clothes against the cold, is the Savior himself.

The Savior Will Provide

Nicholas Maes, "Old Woman at Prayer" (1656)
Nicolaes Maes (Dutch painter, 1634-1693), detail of “Old Woman at Prayer,” known as “Prayer without End” (1656), oil on canvas, 134 x 113 cm, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Larger image.

A Savior comes to rescue people in danger, preserve those who are threatened by harm, and protect his people from the troubles that surround them. That’s what saviors do! That’s what Jesus came to do for us.

Do not be afraid because God has sent a Savior to us — Jesus Christ the Lord. He is the One who will:

  • Never leave us or forsake us.7
  • Supply all our needs according to his riches in glory.8
  • Add to us all the things we need as we seek him and his Kingdom.9

Christmas Is About a Savior

Our world doesn’t know. They think that Christmas is about gifts under a tree and a spirit of good cheer, with Christmas dinner and family around the table. But as good as all that may be, it isn’t nearly as good as the Real Christmas.

The Real Christmas message is this: God has sent a Savior for you. To save you from your sins and to help you in this life — to lift your burden and ease your fears. That’s it! A Savior who is Christ the Lord — God himself!

The world is gripped by fear. But fear’s hold has been broken in those of us who believe the angel’s words:

“Fear not … for a Savior is born to you — Christ the Lord!”

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The Real St. Nick

The Real St. Nick (Santa Claus) by Dr. Ralph F. Wilson

“A vast multitude was imprisoned in every place,” wrote an eyewitness. “The prisons — prepared for murderers and robbers — were filled with bishops, priests, and deacons … so there was no longer room for those condemned of crimes.”[1]

You’d hardly expect to find old St. Nick in jail. But St. Nicholas is more than a children’s Christmas legend. He was flesh and blood, a prisoner for Christ, bishop of the Mediterranean city of Myra.

What do we know about the real St. Nicholas? He was born, ancient biographers tell us, to wealthy parents in the city of Patara about 270 A.D. He was still young when his mother and father died and left him a fortune.

As a teen-ager, Nicholas’ humility was already evident. He had heard about a family destitute and starving. The father had no money for food, much less the dowry needed to marry off his three daughters. He was ready to send his oldest girl into the streets to earn a living as a prostitute.

Under the cover of night, Nicholas threw a bag of gold coins through the window of their humble dwelling. In the morning the father discovered the gold. How he rejoiced: his family was saved, his daughter’s honor preserved, and a dowry for her marriage secured. Some time after, Nicholas secretly provided a dowry for the second daughter. Still later for the third.

But on the third occasion, the girls’ father stood watching. As soon as the bag of gold thudded on the floor, he chased after the lad till he caught him. Nicholas was mortified to be discovered in this act of charity. He made the father promise not to tell anyone who had helped his family. Then Nicholas forsook his wealth to answer a call to the ministry.

At the nearby city of Myra a bishop supervised all the churches of the region. When the bishop died, the bishops and ministers from other cities and villages — Nicholas among them — gathered to choose a successor.

Nicholas was in the habit of rising very early and going to the church to pray. This morning an aged minister awaited him in the sanctuary. “Who are you, my son?” he asked.

“Nicholas the sinner,” the young minister replied. “And I am your servant.”

“Come with me,” the old priest directed. Nicholas followed him to a room where the bishops had assembled. The elderly minister addressed the gathering. “I had a vision that the first one to enter the church in the morning should be the new bishop of Myra. Here is that man: Nicholas.”

Indeed they did choose him as bishop. Nicholas was destined to lead his congregation through the worst tribulation in history.

In A.D. 303, the Roman Emperor Diocletian ordered a brutal persecution of all Christians. Those suspected of following the Lord were ordered to sacrifice to pagan gods. Nicholas and thousands of others refused.

Ministers, bishops, and lay people were dragged to prison. Savage tortures were unleashed on Christians all over the empire. Believers were fed to wild animals. Some were forced to fight gladiators for their lives while bloodthirsty crowds screamed for their death. Women suffered dehumanizing torment. Saints were beaten senseless, others set aflame while still alive.

Yet persecution couldn’t stamp out Christianity. Rather it spread. Third Century leader Tertullian observed, “The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Church.”

Those who survived Diocletian’s torture chambers were called “saints” or “confessors” by the people, because they didn’t forsake their confession that Jesus Christ is Lord. Nicholas was one of these.

Finally, after years of imprisonment, the iron doors swung open and Bishop Nicholas walked out, freed by decree of the new Emperor Constantine. As he entered his city once more, his people flocked about him. “Nicholas! Confessor!” they shouted. “Saint Nicholas has come home.”

The bishop was beaten but not broken. He served Christ’s people in Myra for another thirty years. Through the prayers of this tried and tested soldier of faith, many found salvation and healing. Nicholas participated in the famous Council of Nicea in 325 A.D. He died on December 6, about 343, a living legend, beloved by his whole city.

St. Nick of yuletide fame still carries faint reminders of this ancient man of God. The color of his outfit recollects the red of bishop’s robes. “Making a list, checking it twice,” probably recalls the old saint’s lectures to children about good behavior. Gifts secretly brought on Christmas eve bring to mind his humble generosity to the three daughters.

Yet if he were alive today, this saint would humbly deflect attention from himself. No fur-trimmed hat and coat, no reindeer and sleigh or North Pole workshop. As he did in life centuries ago, Bishop Nicholas would point people to his Master.

“I am Nicholas, a sinner,” the old saint would say. “Nicholas, servant of Christ Jesus.”

 


[1] Eusebius, Church History, VIII, 6, 9.

NOTES: A great deal of legend has built up around St. Nicholas. The author has carefully selected material which he deemed to be the most credible accounts based on those found in Life of Nicholas by tenth century biographer Symeon Logotheta the Metaphrast, quoted by Charles W. Jones in Saint Nicholas of Myra, Bari, and Manhattan: Biography of a Legend (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1978).

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My Christmas Wonder…

Wow, this Christmas stuff is really neat. I’ve been watching my family & the families of so many scurry around for weeks, (years) just to get ready for this one, beautiful, magical morning. I’ve never seen anything like this before, and even though Mom and Dad tried to explain it all to me and have told me wonderful Christmas stories, I’m not sure I understand it.
Hi, I’m Bibbs, and although I’ve been around the block a few times, I must admit this is the
first time I’ve ever encountered this thing called the miracle of Christmas. I’ve been on this earth for over 50 years and thought I knew it all. Now I find I’m not quite as worldly as I thought. Eh, live and learn.

The truth be told, the miracle of Christmas is what we all should be looking for, I don’t generally get Christmas day off, and so this magical morning does not exist for me, I am working to see all the smiles that are created through our designing studio here at Bibbs Flowers and Gifts. I am here very late on Christmas Eve and back again in the morning at around 7 A.M.

Discovering new things is the spice of life and boy have I been discovering things lately. On August 17th of this year I had a new born grandson, this would make my 3rd grandchild. Whom I usually shop for after Christmas. I have a son that turned 38 this year and is turning gray, I didn’t realize that. I haven’t realized a whole lot of things, things are changing and I am just not paying attention.
Who’d have thought you could plant a tree right inside the house? I always thought
something was missing in my living room each year.  Then the thought hit me…! What a great place for a tree.

It was a first miracle to know what huge glory I have been missing all these years…that was my first miracle, the reality.  The second came when my son said to me…”It’ll be a miracle to see you at Christmas, watching the kids open there presents” Of course he is not counting on it…..

Just to let you know…I will be there Christmas Morning!

….And I will be looking forward to 2012, filled with more Christmas mornings then I have ever known…After all, I have a lot of time to make up for.