Growing pains.

Dear readers, I hope everything is going well in your lives. The reality is that some of you are actually going through pretty serious stuff. So today I want to encourage you. It's not easy. every time I'm going through something hard I always here the same thing "everything's going to be ok". That feels like a lie. How do people know when stuff is going to be ok. So I've developed a statement to help myself, and it might help you. "it might not ever be ok again, but It will get better." that's the only thing I can promise you. It will et better. The title of this post is called "growing pains". I have been thinking about this post for about 2 weeks now, and I wanted to make sure that the title is just right.  I named it growing pains, because it hurts to grow. When I was little and was still growing, I used to complain all the time about aches and pains. My parents would say "that's just growing pains". The truth is, is that everybody stops growing physically at some point, and then we don't experience those growing pains anymore. But we never stop growing mentally, emotionally, or spiritually. Growing pains do not occur only in physical growth, but they occur in emotional, spiritual and mental growth as well. Infant sometimes it hurts more to grow in these areas than any other. I'm always told that everything that happens is for a reason and that it will bring good in the future. That is so hard for me to

Understand. I struggle with that so much. It hurts to go through pain and struggles, but I have to believe that I'm growing through uncomfortable circumstances, or else I would go crazy. So many times we just want to give up and say "enough, I can't take it anymore." but then what good would that do. Countless times I have just wondered "what the heck? Why is this happening" then I get mad. Real mad. But that's ok, it's ok to be upset and it's ok to be mad, it's natural. I'm not trying to tell you that you have to be ok with everything going on, but I am encouraging you not to quit and not to give up, because you are growing. Honestly, you will always deal with crap. Always. Life will never be perfect, and you will never stop growing. Life is hard and it hurts and brings you to tears and makes you question everything you've ever known, and makes you angry and confused and completely lost. It can bring so much pain. But the good news about pain, is that your growing. And that you'll come out of whatever your going through stronger. I know that words and encouragement don't take away the hurt and struggle you are going through, but it helps. It's so hard to think about "growing" in the midst of chaos, but it is happening even if you don't know it. Growing is painful, but it's worth it.