"Some grumble at why God put thorns on roses, while others wisely notice - with awe and gratitude - that God puts roses on thorns."  (Nancy Leigh DeMoss)
Choosing to notice the roses and thanking God for them......

Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties.
For when I am weak, then I am strong.

2 Corinthians 12:8-10

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