Every time Mommy let a child come in to talk a while, or made up original designs of her own, or tried to please a customer, the minute she was alone in the shop with the woman designer, the woman started arguing and finding fault with Mommy, and telling her what to do. It was mostly that the woman wanted to get rid of her by sending her out of the way, down to the basement, out to the backyard, etc... One time, Mommy ordered Christmas cards for the store from a crippled man who came around, but the woman said she didn't want cards except from a "firm of her own choice."

After a while, Mommy told her what she thought of her mean actions and decided to leave, since there wasn't any business after a while and there wasn't enough for two people to do. But she didn't want to leave, and it made her unhappy; she was with lots of children there, and she loved the plants and flowers.

She couldn't forget the woman's unkindness, and it made her a little bitter against people, because she thought the woman was wrong. One day she walked past the Catholic Church, St. Alphonsus, and decided to go in to pray. As she walked in, she stood to read a pamphlet, and when she looked up, there stood the woman!

All of sudden, she knew she was supposed to see her and their paths were to cross. So she spoke pleasantly to her and knelt at the cross to pray, while the woman stood there.

Mommy was praying to God to forgive the woman for what she did, and she was also praying for strength to forgive all her enemies and not hold malice. The woman didn't know what Mommy was praying. I wonder what she'd say if she knew? She was standing right next to her.

When people wrong us, we must ask God to help us forgive them and ask God to forgive them. We must try not to give these people a chance to sin again, for it is better to leave than to fight. Every time we fight, unless it is for God, we go against God, for we release sin-so Mommy says. If we fight for what is good and right, that's all right.

The job in the flower shop began and ended with Mommy's prayers. All the things she did happen like that. It was there that she thought about writing this book seriously and even typed a little bit on the typewriter.

She went to the church in Catonsville on November 16 (one year after I left her) where she had been sprinkled, to pray for me and for help in answering the ad for the job because she really wanted to work with flowers. We both love flowers so!

After she left the church, she got the job immediately; after she left the job, she found peace immediately in church! It started with prayer and ended with prayer.

Mommy learned something else while working in the flower shop. She had seen a beautiful bamboo bird cage with a stuffed yellow canary in it, with the number 25 banded on its leg. She decided to buy it and make a tray filled with plants in it, and sell it as an original design.

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