 How Do You Feel About Growth?
As I watch the rain pour down outside my cabin windows, I think about how happy the seeds must be. After a long cold winter of being buried in the hard dark earth, they are blessed by the warmth of all this water. How excited they must be to start growing!
Nature makes growing seem easy. The daffodils don't seem to strain as they send their green shoots upward and pop their yellow faces
toward the sun. Plants understand that there is a season of rest and a
season of growth and they just flow into each one naturally. A young child grows the same way. What happens to us as we become adults? Why do so many associate growth with enormous effort and discomfort? Where does the joy and excitement go?
I now love the process of growth in my life, but I admit I wasn't always crazy about it. In fact, I often resisted it. The work of breaking through the crust of my life was overwhelming. I just wanted things to be comfortable and easy. I wanted to rest.
Falling in love with the process of growth is all about acceptance. I finally concluded that if I had to grow anyway (I noticed that it kept happening whether I liked it or not!), then I might as well embrace it. So rather than hiding from growth, I started looking for it. I became proactive in choosing how I would grow and made leaps of faith that would challenge me in new ways -- I decided to become a coach; I started writing a book; I bought a farm. Each involved making a large commitment to activities that stretched and challenged me, but because I chose them, I love it.
As I learned to love growing and became the architect of my own journey, I noticed a really cool thing: Those pesky head butts life used to deliver to force me to grow have almost disappeared.
During this spring season, take a good long look at all of the growing going on. It's an opportunity to examine your relationship with growth. Are you loving it? Or are you resisting it? Which do you choose?
May you grow well,
Sharon
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