Growing Pains - Rev Paul Gonyea

"Growth can be painful, and frequently is, because it forces us out of our comfort zone. It forces us out of our safe and secure shell. It requires us to give up some really familiar parts of our old identity, and to take on some new and unfamiliar characteristics that we’re not used to. Growth challenges us to recognize that most, if not all, of our so-called limitations are really self-imposed and artificial. All these things can be a pretty big blow to the ego, which also doesn’t feel very good. But when the growing pain ends --- which it will --- the results are almost always worth it."