How Do We Trust God Through Grief & Pain?| Mother’s Day | Rea Queen & Cheryl Stark

How's it going, church family? Welcome to Cross Point. My name is Setnick. This is Janae, the rest of the team. Go on, stand with us. Those tuning in online and our friends that got behind bars, thanks for joining us as well. A special thank you, welcome, and we love you to the mothers here in the room. So glad you guys are here with us. We're gonna start our time in worship through singing. We invite you guys to sing along, come on. ♪♪♪ ♪♪♪ ♪ This is the day you made ♪ ♪ So I will rejoice and be glad, rejoice and be glad in it ♪ ♪ And this is where I believe ♪ ♪ That you are more than enough, more than enough for me ♪ ♪ You are faithful to your promise, you are strong when I am weak ♪ ♪ When I'm standing in your presence, I have everything I need, come on! ♪ ♪ The joy of the Lord, the joy of the Lord is my strength ♪ ♪ Oh, the joy of the Lord, the joy of the Lord is my strength ♪ ♪ Sing, oh my soul, blessed is day, all that is to sin is gain ♪ ♪ The joy of the Lord, the joy of the Lord is my strength, the joy of the Lord ♪ ♪ So Jesus, come what may, cause you are worthy of all, worthy of all my praise ♪ ♪ You are faithful to your promise, you are strong when I am weak ♪ ♪ When I'm standing in your presence, I have everything I need, oh, the joy! ♪ ♪ The joy of the Lord, the joy of the Lord is my strength, it's more than a feeling ♪ ♪ The joy of the Lord, the joy of the Lord is my strength ♪ ♪ Sing, oh my soul, oh my soul, blessed is day, all that is to sin is gain ♪

♪ The joy of the Lord, the joy of the Lord is my strength, it's my strength, the joy of the Lord, the joy of the Lord ♪ ♪ So let it rise up like a river, overflowing Holy Spirit ♪ ♪ Let it pour out with no limits, it's overflowing Holy Spirit ♪ ♪ So let it rise up like a river, overflowing Holy Spirit ♪ ♪ Let it pour out with no limits, it's overflowing Holy Spirit ♪ Sing it! The joy of the Lord, the joy of the Lord is my strength, it's more than a feeling The joy of the Lord, the joy of the Lord is my strength Sing, oh my soul, oh my soul, blessed is day, all that is to sin is gain ♪ Oh my soul, the flesh is made ♪ ♪ All I need is in this day ♪ ♪ Oh my soul, the flesh is made ♪ ♪ All I need is in this day ♪ ♪ The joy of the Lord, the joy of the Lord is my strength ♪ ♪ My strength, my strength, the joy of the Lord ♪ ♪ The joy of the Lord, the joy of the Lord is my strength ♪ Amen. Let's continue to rejoice today. ♪ Rejoice in the Lord and again I say, again I say ♪ That's right. ♪ Rejoice in the Lord and again I say, again I say ♪ You sing. ♪ Rejoice in the Lord and again I say, again I say ♪ ♪ We rejoice, we rejoice in the Lord and again I say, again I say ♪ ♪ Always sing praise to the Lord for he alone is good ♪ ♪ For he alone is good and his love we'll enjoy forever and always, always, always ♪ ♪ The joy of the Lord is my strength, yes ♪ ♪ Rejoice in the Lord and again I say, again I say ♪ ♪ Rejoice, rejoice in the Lord and again I say, again I say ♪ ♪ Always sing praise to the Lord for he alone is good ♪

♪ And his love we'll enjoy forever and always ♪ ♪ Sing praise to the Lord, yes, for he alone is good ♪ ♪ And his love we'll enjoy forever and always, always, always ♪ ♪ That's why, oh that's why I rejoice always, always ♪ Come on. ♪ The Lord woke me up, put breath in my lungs, you say ♪ ♪ The Lord made his mercy rise with the sun ♪ ♪ The Lord gives me blessings, how could I have less ♪ ♪ And the Lord is working everything out ♪ ♪ The Lord came from heaven down to the earth ♪ ♪ The Lord bore the cross and did it deserve ♪ ♪ Oh the Lord took the keys and emptied the grave ♪ ♪ The Lord is coming back one day, one day, one day ♪ Come on. ♪ Always sing praise to the Lord for he alone is good ♪ ♪ And his love will endure forever and always ♪ ♪ Sing praise to the Lord for he alone is good ♪ ♪ And his love will endure forever and always, always, always ♪ ♪ And his love will endure forever and always, always, always ♪ ♪ That's why I rejoice, that's why I rejoice, always, always ♪ ♪ He alone is good, always, always ♪ ♪ That's why I rejoice, always, always ♪ Amen. Amen. Amen. Hallelujah. You alone are good, Jesus. There is no one greater. There is no name above the name, Jesus. We love you, Lord.

We thank you for who you are. We thank you for what you've done and what you're doing. As we move through life, we can stand firm knowing that you are with us every step of the way, Lord. Thank you that you are a good father. Thank you that your mercies are near. you every morning. Thank you that you forgive without question. Thank you. I call you faithful for the promises you've kept and every need you've met. Lord, I'm so grateful you're with me every step and I never will forget. Cause when I think of how you've blessed me, how your hand has never let me go, you never let me go. You have been so good to me. God, I can't believe how you love me. What a friend you have been. You have been so good to me. God, I can't believe how you love me. What a friend you have been. I call you faithful for the blood that washed me clean, for the wrongs that you've redeemed. And I know you're able and my eyes don't have to see one more reason to believe. Cause when I think of how you've blessed me, how your hand has never let me go, you never let me go. You have been so good to me. God, I can't believe how you love me. What a friend you have been. You have been so good to me. God, I can't believe how you love me. What a friend you have been. You have been so good to me. God, I can't believe how you love me. What a friend you have been. For every morning, for every open door, I call you faithful and I just want to thank you Lord. For every mountain, for every time you brought me through, I call you faithful and I just want to thank you Lord. For your forgiveness and for how you never turned away, I call you faithful and I just want to thank you Lord. For your salvation, for you paid the price I couldn't pay, so I call you faithful and I just want to thank you Lord. Oh, oh, oh, oh, I just want to thank you Lord. Oh, oh, oh, oh, I just want to thank you Lord. You have been so good to me. God, I can't believe how you love me. What a friend you have been. So good to me. I think a mother's love grows quietly, like a bouquet, where every stem tells a story of beginnings, of change, and of hope. There's seasons of joy with new blooms and beautiful color, and seasons of loss, where petals fall and the silence can feel heavy. Yet even as the seasons change, our bouquet is never really finished. It simply finds new ways to bloom. Well, I'm glad we're together, Cheryl.

Me too. Yeah, this is going to be awesome. I'm really, really excited to hear just your story from the beginning, where you've been, where you are, where you feel like the Lord's taken you. Well, let's start at the beginning. I am from Mississippi originally, and I've been in Nashville over 20 years now, which is crazy. I'm the baby of three girls, and my mom worked on an assembly line. My dad worked on the railroad and had a construction company. My dad always wanted boys, but he got three girls, and so we grew up playing sports. My dad worked a lot, so my mom kept us in church. I grew up in a little Baptist church in Meridian, Mississippi, but what really feels like home to me is our farm down in South Mississippi. I grew up every Easter down there doing a family reunion, so I never had to buy a Sunday dress until I started working at a church. I should probably not wear cutoffs and a t-shirt on Easter Sundays. I'm just thankful for the ways in which my mom and dad sacrificed and gave their girls maybe an upbringing that they never really had. I was baptized in that church. That's where I started singing, just finding my comfort singing in the church, testifying in the church. I was in that little Baptist church in Meridian. I never joined the choir, but my mom would say, can she do a special? She would order these cassette tapes, and one of my favorites was a song called This World Is Not My Home. It's an old gospel song, and a song that truly has been an anchor for me, even in times of tough and hard throughout my life. This World Is Not My Home, I'm Only Passing Through. I was singing that at six years old, so it's definitely marked me in such a way. And then when we did those family reunions on our farm, the ladies in my family would

gather these 1930s hymnals, and they're missing the front, they're missing the back. We probably had a dozen of them, and we passed them out to our family members in a pasture, sitting in fold-up chairs, just singing songs like Lily of the Valley and How I Love Jesus and The Old Rugged Cross. I don't come from a real strong line of musicians, but we were making a joyful noise to the Lord, and I am grateful for the mark of those women and men in my life that pointed me on the path at such an early age. One day when I was in seventh grade, it was a Wednesday morning, and my father was checking on a site, a construction site that his guys had done the day before on his way to his main job, and a freak construction accident, a piece of machinery fell on him and essentially crushed him. That was the darkest day of my life to that point, right? As a child, your parents are your forever, and in losing my dad, it was kind of that first taste of, oh, there's an end? We're not here forever? Your parents are like superheroes, so to lose my dad at such a young age, I mean, twelve years old, becoming—I had just turned twelve. It really rocked me in a lot of ways. He died in October, and in May of that same year, I decided to give my life to Jesus. The Lord knows well before what we are going to walk through, how we're going to need Him. For me, even as a little girl, I didn't know that, but He called me to Himself before I lost my earthly father. You don't know what you don't know until you go through it, right? I'm so thankful that I gave my life to Christ in that time, because I didn't know that I would be going through such a hard season of sorrow and grief. It doesn't mean that after I lost my dad, everything was great, and I got through it with a breeze. We went through every stage of grief, and I am so thankful even for my sisters. One of them gave me a journal and said, Write down your emotions. Write down your feelings.

Don't let it sit inside and just be suppressed, because one day you're going to explode, and we don't want you to do that. That even for me was when I started journaling, when I was twelve years old. It, yeah, it's been pivotal for me. It was foundational in my relationship with Jesus. Do you want to chop a vegetable? Sure. You want to chop some zucchini? I can. Let's do it. Zucchini's are good in it. Do you like them quartered? Let's go. Or do you like them just sliced? I try to save some of the fresh veggies without all the seasoning for both. So we'll set some aside after we cook it. But for now, I'm gonna make a sheet pan dinner. Like it's quick, throw it all together. Simple seasonings, my olive oil. Growing up in the South, we never heard of olive oil. It was always butter. But I've grown up a little bit. All right, I'm curious though. You've been talking about the cassette tapes and the hymnals in the field and on the farm. So when did you really know, like, music was important to you and it became such a big part of your life? Because we know where you are now.

Right, right. So when did you know? I think I never not knew, if that makes sense. I thought for me to go to further education, it would either be sports that took me there or music. Music and ultimately basketball brought me to Nashville. Turns out I secured a walk-on spot for my freshman year at Belmont and I also got into the School of Music. So even then, I think I was just curious and wide-eyed to how far can I actually take music? Sad to say, I only played three weeks. I only lifted weights once. And then I talked to that coach and I said, I'm only 5'8 and I really wanna do music. So those basketball shoes stayed on my bunk bed in college and I played pickup games. That's actually how I met my husband. We guarded each other in a pickup game and I just thought he was dreamy. From day one, I thought he was so dreamy and I asked a mutual friend, you know, what's this guy's story? And then I ran into Adam at a frozen yogurt shop at Sweet Cece's and we were married just two years later. I actually wasn't a songwriter when I moved to Nashville. I had only ever been a singer and a performer and been in talent shows. And so songwriting came a bit later, but because of that background that I had had in journaling

after my father's death, songwriting came a little bit natural to me in the form of poems. And then I wrote a song about my mom called Magnolia. Magnolia is the state flower in Mississippi. And I wrote that song and I wrote another song called Married Men, very country. If you like 90s country, you will like it. But those two songs essentially are what led me to getting my first artist development and publishing deal here in Nashville. Exciting year. Yeah, married, engaged, signed an artist deal and publishing deal all in the same year. Yeah, it honestly felt like I was playing for the Yankees. Like, what is happening? These dreams are coming true. A love story, a deal in Nashville. Oh, thank you, God. Like this is, okay, it's time to work hard. One of my favorite things is crock pot. Because I work, I have to figure something out that doesn't require a ton of my time at night. And so I love a good chicken recipe or pulled pork barbecue or pot roast. And I just, that crock pot saves us so many days of a busy week or the local Mexican restaurant. Can I get an amen? Amen. And how long was that?

Like, how long was that season? Gosh, my deal with Sony was three years, but I had, there was a whole nother year where I was able to tour and I would play at grocery stores, NASCAR races. And so I was like, okay, I'm out of my deal, but I'm still touring and getting all this promotion and marketing and just getting to have so much fun and building that fan base that I was still pretty optimistic that that was gonna be the future for me. Was gonna be the future. Was. Okay. Yes. Where did, how did you hang on to hope and hang on to joy in what was at the very least a time that was unknown what was coming and maybe even a time where there was a little bit of fear around it. I don't wanna put words in your mouth, but. I might've been a country singer and a small town girl, I've always had big faith that God would give me peace to my yes and peace to my no. If I could tell that girl something that I know now, it would be to fully surrender your plans and allow God to guide you. I think I was like, God, this is what I wanna do. Come along. And so he still meant a lot to me. My faith meant a lot to me,

but I might've been a little bit blinded to, well, this is how it's gotta look. There was a part of me that was like, I did it. What now? And it was a really hard season. I was getting out of my deal. I was really seeking God to give me some peace about what was next. And in my quiet time with him, he started giving me melodies of songs for the church. I would yell, Adam, come here, grab your guitar, you know, the iPhone just started having voice memos at the time. And I was like, let's press record. And the Lord started changing my heart for writing songs for the church. About three months later, we got pregnant with our first little boy. His name is Judah. And I'm curious, Judah, was that, was that on purpose? My mother's name is Judy, and her middle name was Hendry, her maiden name. And so we named him after her. So he's Judah Hendry. Having lost my dad at such a young age, I mean, my mom is the matriarch of our family. She was tough as nails and just a woman of faith and just such a pillar in my life and my sister's lives. And as a grandmother, my mom had started showing some signs of what I thought was just getting older. We started to see our parents age and their bodies start doing things that they didn't do when we were younger. And there was a Christmas where we went down to our farm. We like to hunt the last week of the year. And my mom didn't cook.

And that for me was a big red flag. She didn't cook because she was a cook. She started having body chills and fever. And in May, she told me and my family that she had liver cancer. And we're optimistic, right? Like you're a fighter. My mom beat breast cancer 15 years before. And so she was like this, I beat breast cancer, I've got this, you know, just such a fighter. We were told a couple months later, two to four years. I mean, I was reconsidering like, do we move back to Mississippi so that my kids can know their grandmother? Do I want to stop working for a season to spend more time with my mom while I have her? And they said two to four years. And we had two months, two months. And so for the first time, we experienced hospice care. And we got her set up in her bedroom looking at the lake. And I would play her some of my songs, like Living Hope, No Matter How Long It Takes, songs that I've been able to record with Crosspoint that she loved even more. That was one of the only songs she said ever made her cry. I'm telling you, she was tough. So I played her these songs, and I said, Mom, do you know who this is? And she said, yeah, Lauren Daigle. And I was like, no, no, Mom. But you know, again, joy and sorrow in the same, in the same breath. Sitting beside her right before she went to sleep, and she looked at me, and she said, you know, I'm not scared. I'm not scared. I know where I'm going. And I just remember looking at her and said, but I'm scared. I don't want to lose you.

But her confidence in the Lord gave me hope that this world is not our home and that there is an eternal home waiting for us and that I could begin hoping that I will see her again. And I remember I stepped out into the living room, and I began to journal, which I love to do. And the Lord gave me this vision. I think I've shared it with you. I was in this valley, and there were these ridge, mountain ridges on each side of me. I was sitting down Indian style, and I just had this hand reaching out for me. And I remember it was Jesus. It was the Lord saying, you can't stay here. You need to follow me. And I was like, where are we going? I'm not ready to let go of her. And he said, I need you to follow me. And so I got up off the ground, and I put my hand in his, and I began trusting him with this too. And for me, that was such a sign of, okay, she's going to pass soon, and I can release that to God. I think my prayers changed from God heal her body, heal her body, please, Lord, no, to okay, Lord, I trust you that if you don't heal her here, you will heal her there. And I will trust you, and I will praise you. And I feel like he just was so kind to meet me with his comfort, and to walk me through being able to let go of her on this side of heaven. I mean, we all have hard things that we're faced with in our life. And sometimes they come in the most unexpected seasons. We have Judah, and then we get pregnant quickly with our second son, Pac. And when Pac was about three weeks old, our world just really, truly flipped upside down. And one morning, our oldest son, Judah, was sleeping in kind of late for him. He's only 19 months at the time. And we said, we better go check on him.

And he is facing the wall. He was convulsing, his body was convulsing, his face was blue, his lips were blue, his eyes were rolling in the back of his head and we just panic, like sheer panic. But there was a moment we had called 911 and Adam is standing there holding Judah and Judah's body goes limp and takes this breath. And I think that was a moment where Adam and I thought we had lost our son. So Judah begins having what are called febrile seizures, it's like less than 1% of children experience one, and then another 1% of that experience more than one. Well, over the next three years, Judah has six seizures. It could be a low grade fever that pops up that seizure. And that for us, I have never prayed the way that I prayed in that season as a mother. We had a three week old and a 19 month old and I just remember going into the presence of the Lord, like going into prayer and almost like this ferocious spirit of a lion, like going in and saying, like fighting for his life in prayer, speaking words of life over him, picking scriptures and just speaking them over him. But in that season of prayer, I had to learn how to surrender not just my life to Jesus, but my kids. Of course, who wants their child to pass? Who wants their child to be sick? And it was such an acute pain for us that I had to go, okay, God, you're still good in this. I surrender my kid's life to you. But he has been faithful and he has healed Judah and we haven't had one in three years now and it can be hereditary. So the prayers that I was praying over Judah, you better believe they are continuing over Pac. They are continuing over Bo. Sometimes a fear will come up like, what are they doing? And it's fine. They're just looking out the window or they jumped, you know, and I just have to say,

you know, no fear in Jesus name. We're just going to pray. We're just going to pray. We had sweet Bo Bishop in May of 2025 and about six weeks postpartum, I tried to sing again. I was like, let's, we've got some time, I've got some time away and he's taking a nap, you know, let me see if I can sing. And I remember having some trouble in my voice. I ended up going to a doctor appointment about a week later. It's just my annual dermatologist appointment. And I had developed a lump on my neck. And again, I'm just thinking hormones. I've just had a baby, no big deal, pretty healthy other than that. And my dermatologist looks at me and says, you're going to need to talk to your primary care. And she's, she seemed pretty assertive about it. Like this week, she starts talking about an autoimmune disease called Hashimoto's. Turns out that there was a nodule that was three times the size of what they would consider a large thyroid nodule. And so the next step is a biopsy. I got the news that just, again, just felt impossible. Mrs. Stark, it is cancer. And of course you hear that word, I hear that word and I remember my mom. So after the diagnosis, I was, I mean, I felt like my head was on a swivel a lot of days. I didn't know whether to be hopeful or whether to be afraid or to praise or to, I just, I didn't know which way was up. It was Adam's birthday and it was just four days after my diagnosis. And I wanted to do this really fancy dinner with our kids. We call it fancy dinners. I go upstairs to put something on and I just, I just think these horrible things like, what

if this is the last birthday that I have with him? And I'm so overcome with sadness that I get, I get angry because I wanted to make this a special event for him. And I just lost it. I was like, this is a horrible time to lose it, but I felt like I was going to explode. And I just started yelling and crying out to God and praying. And I remember I grabbed some clothes and I just, I shouted and yelled as loud as I could. I screamed into those clothes and a part of me was like, hear my voice, oh Lord, hear my voice, oh Lord. Like David says in the Psalms, like I was screaming, where are you, my God? And a part of me wanted to hear myself do that because I wasn't promised that I would have a voice after this surgery. And so I was like, if I'm going to make noise, I want you to hear me that I am angry that I am not okay with this. And I fell on my face in our closet and I fell to my knees and I just remembered that he was there. He was with me. He wasn't afraid of my anger. He was like, I'm with you. I've never left you, I've never forsaken you. Lift your head, lift your head. Forget not who I am. ♪♪♪ ♪♪♪ ♪♪♪ ♪♪♪ Lord, you see my need, you already know. I am lost for words, still you listen. ♪♪♪

In the hidden place, you see everything. I just say your name and you come running. ♪♪♪ I need you Jesus, I really need you now. More than ever, a miracle somehow. I've walked through the fire, I've prayed through the night. You've never been far from my side. I need you Jesus, I really need, I really need you now. On your word I stand. I've been here before. You have proved your love again and again and again. You always do. And I need you Jesus, I really need you now. More than ever, a miracle somehow. I've walked through the fire, I've prayed through the night. You've never been far from my side. I need you Jesus, I really need, I really need you now. I need you now. When I'm afraid, I will trust you Lord. Whatever it takes, I will trust you Lord. For my family's sake, I will trust you over and over again. And so every day I will trust you Lord. Maybe this is your prayer today. When I'm afraid, I will trust you Lord. I will trust you. Whatever it takes, I will trust you Lord. With all I have, for my family's sake, I will put my trust in you. And so every day I will trust you. I'm learning to trust you.

I need you Jesus, I really need you to come through today. More than ever, a miracle somehow. Cause I've walked through the fire, I've prayed through the night. You've never been far from my side. And I've walked through the fire, I've prayed through the night. You've never been far from my side. I need you Jesus, I really need, I really need you now. Thanks for watching! I mean, the enemy literally came for my voice. He hates a valley worshiper, and he knew that I would be found, praise in God, in that valley. So October 28th, I had a full thyroidectomy, a full removal of the thyroid because the size of the mass was anywhere between three and five centimeters, which also essentially means it's been in my body for three to five years, and the surgery was successful. It was perfect. There was no injury to the vocal cords. There was no cancer that had spread to the two nerves, and December 28th, got the results after my full body scan that I was cancer-free, that it was nowhere in my body, and we kicked the new year off with so much joy and so much thankfulness and so much gratitude. And then even looking back, the day I found out about my diagnosis, Adam and I hung out. We did not want to come home for a while. We were in just such a place of shock, right? I mean, that first step in the grief cycle is denial, like, is this real? We came home around eight o'clock that night, and my six-year-old little Judah looks at me, has no idea what we've gone through, but is busting at the seams to tell us, Mommy and Daddy, I want to walk with Jesus. I'm ready to give my life to Him. Will you tell me more stories about Him? I want to walk with Him all the days of my life. And Adam and I had pretty much cried out all of our tears that day, and we're like, maybe tomorrow, like maybe five days go by.

And we eventually walked Him through salvation prayer, and CrossPoint Kids helped walk Him through first steps. And on December 7th, before I knew I was fully cancer-free, we got to baptize Him at the Nashville campus. And even in that season, I just feel like God was, He knew that Judah was going to want Jesus as much as we were going to need Him. Judah would come into our room before we got up in the morning, and he'd say, Mom, have you chosen Jesus today? I'm like, I haven't even had a cup of coffee yet. But He was leading us and reminding us how much we needed Him, how much we needed to choose Him for that daily bread, that daily supplication, that daily help and comfort. I'm even thinking, Cheryl, like the vision that the Lord so kindly gave you and where He was like, take my hand, like, let's walk out of this, I would just be curious what you might say to the group that has not been willing yet, yet, to receive that invitation of Jesus saying, take my hand, let's, let's walk out of this. Yes. I think that's probably one of the reasons I've said yes to sharing my story is because I know so intimately how God has met me on my face, on my knees, in a hard season that I never asked for, that I never imagined we would be walking through. And He's brought me through it. I think some of us have this concept that God is the one who's punishing. God is the one who, well, if He's good, why is He allowing this to happen? And I think that what breaks our hearts breaks the heart of God. And He is essentially saying, but I am with you. I will never leave you. I will never forsake you. And I think we have this beautiful opportunity to choose every day. We can choose to let life dictate our emotions, our faith, or we can walk in faith. It's to walk blindly in faith and say, though my situation is not as it should be, though I am walking through a hard season, yet I will praise the Lord.

He says, yet I will rejoice in the God of my salvation who makes my feet like the deer, able to tread upon the heights. And if you've ever seen a deer jump over a rocky hill, how graceful, how beautiful, how swift, and only through rejoicing, choosing to rejoice in the Lord in a season of pain and grief and sadness are we able to experience this supernatural power of Him making our feet like the deer. Yet I will rejoice. Yet I will choose. And so all the more, invite Him into your pain. Invite Him into this disbelief, even to the anger. Invite Him into that so that you can get to the other side saying, I praised you even when I didn't know how it was going to end. I love to encourage people that God is good, even in the valley, that God is so good in the valley. And the devil cannot stand a valley worshiper. And remember his benefits because he is with us in the valley and he is with us in the heights. Amen. Amen. Amen. One of my favorite verses. is from Psalm 23. It says, the Lord is my shepherd. I lack nothing. He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside quiet waters. He refreshes my soul. He guides me along the right paths for his namesake. So I really believe that by choosing joy and choosing love and hope,

that our bouquet can always grow stronger and more beautiful through every storm, every season, and it will always find a new way to bloom.