A man stopped at a flower shop to order some flowers to be wired to his mother who lived two hundred miles away. As he got out of his car he noticed a little boy sitting on the curb sobbing.
He asked the boy what was wrong and the boy replied, “I wanted to buy a red rose for my mother. But I only have seventy-five cents, and a rose costs two dollars.”
The man smiled and said, "Come on in with me. I’ll buy you a rose."He bought the little boy his rose and ordered his own mother’s flowers. As they were leaving he offered the little boy a ride home. The boy said, “Yes, please! You can take me to my mother.” He directed the man to a cemetery, where he placed the rose on a freshly dug grave.
The man returned to the flower shop, canceled the wire order, picked up a bouquet and drove the two hundred miles to his mother’s house.
If our parents are alive, let us give them the gift of our affection, if they are waiting for us in the heaven, let us send them the gift of our sincere prayers (which they need)