This is a Rose. Beautiful yet thorny.

Imagine you're averse to thorns and you pick up a rose.

You have to make a decision to either fixate on the thorn, or on the beautiful flower, the very essence of the plant.

The thorn, is a happenstance in the Rose's process of be-coming,

And not the Rose(the final Fruit).

Soon the thorn is done away with.

And you have you the beautiful matured Rose.

If on the other hand, you're fixated on the thorn, 

You drop it.

And you lose out.

On the essence of the Rose.

May the Lord help us preserve the beauty and essence in the things we see, in our own selves, in the people we meet.

To build and not break down

Bury quarrels in the ground.

So that the grace we bear, may truly shine forth.

And not dim in its full essence....