Life is what happens when you make plans.

You can't always control what happens to you, but you can choose how you react.

Who hasn't heard both these phrases and either laughed about it or nodded in agreement or both? Cliche as they might be, there is also a lot of truth in each statement.

The twists and turns we experience in our lives can often make us feel as if we're constantly fighting an uphill battle that saps our physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual health. We wonder if we're strong enough to make it until we realize our strength was never the question. Instead, it was a matter of when we'd make it, not if.

In this fifth edition of the Blessed Not Broken series, you'll read about women who lived with and through significant challenges and how they refused to allow their circumstances to define them. Each writer highlights a specific period in her life where she wondered how she'd ever recover the pieces of herself only to discover the fire she walked through forged a more brilliant, a more resilient version of herself.

The strength of a woman can never be overstated. Blessed Not Broken: When Being Strong Is All You Know. The setback was a setup for a major comeback!