There is NOT a Rose Garden Without Thorns

To have a rose garden there has to be thorns. Now im sure there are some breeders out there who know how to make a rose bush not have any thorns. But for the most part there are thorns in the roses. When we deal with issues in our lives they are the thorns of our rose stems. Our pain is sharp and prickley like that of a rose stem if you dont cut it away first before handling it. Today my pain my rose bush has become nothing but thorns, nothing good i seem to think will ever become beautiful. I certainly cant see it among my pain of remembering the abuse in my lifetime. I see one patch of thorns after another and another, and i kinda feel like bere rabbit from Song of the South, when he keeps getting into the brier patches of the thorns. He didnt learn his lesson till its to late, Am i the same way? Sure when things started out i was young and too innocent to know right and wrong, but as i got older, certainly i could have trimmed back the brier patch and not chosen the guys, or men who were going to hurt me right? maybe yes maybe no. I dont know. Theres a phrase most christians abuse even though its straight out of the bible; The promise the God doesnt give more then we can bear. Well thats all good and well ppl, But this girl, has baren enough, and she is tired, and lonely, and afraid of all the things in life that has happend to her. Im tired of being hurt, Im tired of looking over my shoulder, of not trusting anyone. Those are the Thorns I have on my rose bush. I know down deep inside however that God truley is going to use this and make my garden a beautiful one, and one by one he is going to help me shave off the thorns, and give me a crown of glory. Till then, Know that im human, I cant fogive as easily as i should, I cannot forget either, that is only God to do that. I cant get over something either as fast as you can say Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious either, so be patient with me im work in progress. We all are. Basically what it comes down too is God didnt give a rose garden to just walk through without the thorns, He gave us the rose garden to work things out.