"Have you ever noticed that flowers smell more fragrant after the rain?" "For you died to this life, and your real life is hidden with Christ in God." Colossians 3:3 (NLT) "A bruised reed He shall not break, and a smoking flax He will not snuff out." Matthew 12:20 (NIV) I read somewhere recently that "valleys are the most fertile places on earth" a nd I believe this may be true in our lives also. Sometimes, God leads us along mountain tops where life is 'rosy and bright'. Other times, He leads us down into the valley; and it's in this fertile place that God speaks tenderly to us through the Holy Spirit who gently cultivates our hearts creating something beautiful for His glory. I've found time and again that it's in the valleys of life that that God grows my patience and trust in Him. Although painful times, they have become beautiful too. The poem below —"Beauty
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