Gail writes: May you know growth of love, of mind, of life and in spirit, in living and resting, and playing, may God direct you and may the angels who are all around you support and help you
Word of the Day: Growth
Image of the Day: stormy skies
Token of the Day: long, narrow black scarf with silver threads through it.
Growing edges
growth spurts
growing pains
malignant or benign?
We need a stop-start mechanism! Most of us are fortunate to have the optimum level of human growth hormone in us but some receive too little and some too much. Maturation involves growth and adaptation. The ripening/maturing process is not ever-increasing in pace but ever-slowing with more pauses in it as it goes along.
As a baby growth is generally rapid. As a child we have seemingly endless resources - we play all day! The growth, repair and maintenance occurs while we sleep. As an adult we discover our boundaries (or at least some of them!), we certainly start to recognise our limits, our limitations. We require longer pauses for breath, for rest, for renewal. Now more repair rather than growth is required! Hmmm, is this a reflection on my imminent 40th birthday?!
Growth is a process not an event. If we learn we grow, as we grow our capacity for wisdom increases hand-in-hand with humility.
May the Divine grant me the courage to continue to grow in faith
to never cease growing in love
and to have the desire for humility more than the desire for knowledge.
Wisdom of the Spirit, increase my need for you
bless those who travel with me
and grant me serenity at the times when the growing edges hurt too much.
in addition perhaps growth occurs when the old is stripped away to create room for growth, for development, for compassion and humility...
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perhaps growth helps us to become and be beautiful in a new way.