{Grow...}

I am immediately taken back to those school years.

Of lacing up ankle braces, tightening up shoes, and running the hard-wood.

I was an athlete.

Learning and growing.

Both physically, mentally, and skill wise.

I think back to those years and I remember...

The stretching of my bones.
Pain and Grow. 

The stretching of muscle.
Pain and Grow. 

The stretching of mind over matter.

Pain and Grow.

The stretching of my skills and what I could do.

Pain and Grow. 

Fast Forward many years later and it is still the same.

If I want to Grow.

Grow in Him.

Grow in my relationship with Christ.

I have to be stretchable, moldable, do the hard-work.
Put the time in.

Go through the pain and stretching.

It is then that my faith will...

GROW. 


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³ We ought always to thank God for you, brothers, and rightly so, because your faith is growing more and more, and the love every one of you has for each other is increasing. ⁴ Therefore, among God’s churches we boast about your perseverance and faith in all the persecutions and trials you are enduring. 

2 Thessalonians 1:3-4 

 Will you join me in growing?

By His Grace,

Cole

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