Growing up !!

One of my great teachers, when asked,  How he was?,   Would almost always answer, " Growing up."


I saw him just several days before he died.  He was in the hospital.  When I asked him how he was?, He smiled and said.... 'David, i almost have grown up.....


Several days later, he did.  He grew up.

When we raise our children, we learn that they grow.  They can grow in size but there is more to the growing thing. 




I can remember buying and selling kids shoes.  We use to offer a deal when selling kids shoes. 
We guaranteed the children's shoes, that we sold,  and said, no child could wear out a pair of our shoes.  Of course they could not. For certain sizes, they would out grow them, before they wore them out. 




Children can grow very fast at certain times in  their lives.   We called those times 'Growth Spirts".


"Growing up". ' Being a grown up."  Terms about maturing.  Again wording not all about size, a lot about the maturing process. 


We think about the "Grown up".  Not just a physical process.  Can mean a mental and spiritual process as well. 




We think of terms:  baby, toddler, adolescent, teen, adult.  old.    We  see progression in the usage of these terms.  yet we don't just see them in respect of the  physical.   We recognize we see change and show it in the use of the words.  We think in terms of growing.  We can use these words when talking about people, animals and plants.  We can also use these terms when thinking bout organizations, groups, businesses,  churches, and governments.   




As the new month begins.  we also think about what new month it is.  The last month of  the year.  New, yet older...... it always amazes me.  Right now it is morning for me.  Yet i wonder where yesterday went and i could  say that about this past year.  More wonder,  Where, can't help but wonder where life has gone and where it is going? 




I  am the baby in my family.  The youngest son of my parents.  Back in June this year, i turned 71.  For some, they would say babyhood has passed me long by.  As it should, it has passed, but only in some ways.  




Each day holds for me a newness.  Each day is wonderful. I see a baby just born.  Throughout the  day, it grows.  Grasp each moment as it ages.  We call this day, Life  and Living.  Hopefully as the day reaches fullness, we can find full meaning  and purpose. 


Happy Birthday its beautiful.....precious .