The snow and then frost caught this little bud right as it was beginning to open and realize its full potential. . Have you ever felt that way? You are doing great, coming into your own, beginning to see that your dreams can actually happen, then BAM! Right before you get to your peak or your end goal you get sideswiped, derailed or frozen in your tracks. . If you're feeling like this tiny rose, please know that so often challenges, heartbreak, and devastation happen right before you get to the goal. Success nearly always comes AFTER overcoming the difficulty. Because that difficulty is the very thing that will equip you and make you what you need to be... if you don't give up. . I'm not just spouting a bunch of words to make you feel better. I have lived through this many, many times. I have had to endure pain, tragedy, doubt, fear and failure. But those things that burned me, God used to refine, grow, and transform me into the person I needed to be at those times to overcome and reac...