The process of growing hurts sometimes

There are times of great growth and then other seasons where you feel like you're barely making any progress at all.

There are times when "pruning" happens and you feel like you have lost a part of the world that you knew.

Then when the pain subsides you realized that without knowing, something new took root and began to show you that it was worth it. Sometimes life still hurts, and growing is hard, but I hope and pray every time I begin to feel the pain of new growth that I never forget that there is a reward at the end. I hope will be able to see something new, with a fresh perspective at the end of it all.