Life is hard! We make decisions. We get stubborn. We don’t listen to wisdom because “that doesn’t apply to me.” Yes, I know, because that describes the life of yours truly. Those life lessons can be rough! But they are also precious jewels. We hate the process of learning those lessons – and some lessons last an entire lifetime! – but once we accept them, embrace them, and learn from them, we discover the blessing of them. And that gives us hope for the future