A Bump in the Road

We all have bumps in the road of life. We make plans and sometimes those plans don't turn out like we wanted them to. Sometimes our timing isn't the same as God's timing. I was talking to a friend yesterday about struggles in life and how adversity develops our character and shapes who we are and what we become. He gave me an example of how a caterpillar makes a cocoon and how that caterpillar turns into a butterfly. That butterfly has to fight his way out of that cocoon. If someone helps him out of the cocoon, he will die. A butterfly must endure this struggle to survive. As hard as some struggles are, we must go through them to develop and grow. We have to fight to survive. It's not how many times you get knocked down, it's how many times you get up and continue the fight. No one ever said it would be easy. NO EXCUSES! God Bless!