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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I wrote for the last two weeks, of my experiences in training roses to grow straight and tall to make standard mop-top rose bushes. There are so many lessons that we can learn from the unpleasant things that come our way in our lives, and yet how beneficial they can be to us in the long run! It brought to mind the experience of a friend of mine who had this hard lesson to learn early in her married life\u2026..<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She and her new husband had had a\nsevere disagreement over something, so\nshe flounced off back to her mother expecting to find some sympathy. But her\nmother was a very wise woman, and after listening to her daughter\u2019s story and\ngrievances, she said, \u201cMy dear you can\u2019t stay here now. This isn\u2019t your home\nany more. You chose to live with your husband and you are going to have to go\nback to him before dark. But come and have a cup of tea before you leave!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So the young woman sat down with her hot\ndrink and calmed down enough to go back to her new home with one lesson learned.\nShe had made her choice and had to abide by it. Of course she loved her\nhusband, but she was going to show him a thing or two, she thought. Instead, it\nwas she who needed to learn a lesson or two!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Then when she got home, she found that the\ndoor was locked! It didn\u2019t matter how much she knocked and banged on the door,\nit stayed firmly shut. She wasn\u2019t even sure if her husband was at home. So she\nsat down in the porch nursing her angry thoughts. She couldn\u2019t go back to her\nmother\u2026.she had made that very clear. And now she couldn\u2019t get into her home\neither. The door just stayed locked with no movement inside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Finally her husband relented and unlocked\nthe door so she could go in. She had learned her second lesson well, and never\nagain did she allow her temper get the better of her. It took tough measures\nfor her to learn these two lessons, and it is the same for the roses that find\nthemselves tied straight to a stake with their other laterals cut off to make\nthem look up. It takes these tough lessons for us to learn these things too,\nbut as we yield to our Master Gardener, so He can make something beautiful of\nour lives. We learn to look up into His face to help us overcome our petty hurt\nfeelings and say, \u201cNot my will, but may Yours be done!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I wrote for the last two weeks, of my experiences in training roses to grow straight and tall to make standard mop-top rose bushes. There are so many lessons that we can learn from the unpleasant things that come our way in our lives, and yet how beneficial they can be to us in … Continue reading Tough Things to Learn.<\/span>