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Growing Pains

Unfortunately, everyone has to grow up sometime... tough as life is, it feels like it can always get more tough. How does one "grow up" anyway? And why do people always say that when times are hard? "Why don't you just grow up?" Gee, thanks for kicking me while I'm down... How does being "grown up" help us deal with life's hard questions, or difficult situations? It hurts to grow. We get more mature the more crud we deal with in our life. Interesting... The Bible says in Romans 8:28, " And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose." An interesting plan. When life gets tough we grow, we mature, we gain valuable things like character, or learn "lessons." If life was never tough, would we grow? Would we learn? Would we gain character or learn life lessons? Wouldn't a good father not shelter his child from the pains and trials of the w