Once while praying about some challenges, my thoughts went to an oak tree at the house I grew up in. I remember my dad planted the acorn. I needed to mow around it when it was really tiny. It survived through many winters. Now it is a huge, beautiful oak tree. I had the thought that I'm like that tree and maybe some these challenging times are like those times of cold and winter.
It takes me to the other thought I had this last year. "Just because you don't have the ideal marriage or relationship with loved ones doesn't mean you can't learn to live my laws."
