The bloom of a rose is beautiful, but the thorn of a rose produces only pain. Thorns hurt us yet they humble us. That is the blessing of thorns.
SOME RESOURCES USED IN OUR GROUP

Books and Bible Study from Joni Eareckson Tada:

- When God Weeps: Why Our Sufferings Matter to the Almighty
- A Lifetime of Wisdom: Embracing the Way God Heals You
- A Place of Healing: Wrestling with the Mysteries of Suffering


- The Upside of Adversity by Os Hillman  

- Streams in the Desert by L.B. Cowman


- Just AS I AM, and DVDs from David Ring



- A Blessing in the Storm... Muscular Dystrophy messed up my life and made me whole (Volume One and Two) by Lori Laws