Growth is Pain

I have one teen age son and a pre-teen daughter. The son is constantly growing these days. It seems that he wakes up in the morning an inch taller than when he went to bed.

The thing about growing is that it hurts. Knees, elbows, hands, legs, arms, and feet all hurt. Growing is painful.

I am not a gardener. However, to be good neighbors we had some landscaping done. To care for our plants we have to prune them. Pruning is that practice of cutting something off so that something new can grow.

Growth hurts. There is simply no way around that reality. If we are going to experience growth in our personal lives or in our communal lives we will experience pain.