Roses and Honey

Did you know that wild roses have more intense scent than domesticated ones? I don't know for sure why that is but maybe it's out of necessity. Domesticated roses will get pollinated by a Gardener, they don't need to attract any bees or insects. Wild roses don't have a choice. They need those bugsy suitors.
Maybe that's what made the Shulamite woman in the Song of Solomon so lovely. She wasn't a pampered lady of the tents. She was out in the fields working with her brothers and had darkly tanned skin to prove it.
Perhaps this necessity, this 'suffering' made her lovely inside as well as out. She had a beautiful disposition, a lovely scent of peace.
I want to be like that wild rose. I want to give off an intoxicating scent to my Beloved.
If that means He needs to mold and shape me through the field of suffering, He will help me to endure and flourish.
I will trust Him. I will trust that through His work in me a beautiful Bounty of Honey will be harvested.