It's Growing Season...

Spring is quickly becoming summer and with it the earth comes alive.  I planted a garden this year, for the first time in many.  This is the first summer I've been in a house with a yard for over 4 years and I'm so excited about eating some of the tomatoes from my very own garden.  I've been thinking a lot about growing.  Not so much about plants in the garden, but growing as a person.  I think I used to think that as we become adults, we "arrive" at some place and there we live happily ever after, knowing all we need to know to live out a happy life.  At some point, that changed for me.  I don't remember exactly when, but at that point in my life I realized that this life is a classroom.  That in every aspect of life, there is a lesson to be learned, every experience, every encounter, every day offers some thing to take away, something that feeds us and helps us to grow.  One of the things that we tend to forget, is the idea that perhaps only the good things that happen to us help us to grow.  It's not always good, but it is an opportunity to learn and grow nonetheless.  What struck me the this week was not so much the idea of growing, but the notion of what to do when you stop growing?  Think about it like this.  Are you in a situation, be it a career, a friendship, a relationship where you have grown all you can?  Is there anything else for you to learn that will make you a better person, the person you are meant to be?  This week it hit me while I was on the treadmill...when you stop growing, it's time to move on....it's the sign, it's the realization you need to make yourself better.  I challenge myself to be someone who continually grows, in hopes of becoming all that I am possible of being.  I challenge all of you to do the same.