Some things are tough but essential to move to the next level. I recently initiated a process that has inspired a months (or years) long process of introspection and development of a personal action plan. It feels like I’m no longer here but not yet there.

Not easy, but is growth ever easy?

How blessed the man you train, GOD, the woman you instruct in your Word. Psalms 94:12 – The Message (MSG)

Refuse discipline and end up homeless; embrace correction and live an honored life. Proverbs 13:18 – The Message (MSG)

So don’t feel sorry for yourselves. Or have you forgotten how good parents treat children, and that God regards you as his children? My dear child, don’t shrug off God’s discipline, but don’t be crushed by it either. Hebrews 12:5 – The Message (MSG)

If you are not disciplined (and everyone undergoes discipline), then you are illegitimate children and not true sons. Hebrews 12:8 – New International Version (NIV)

At the time, discipline isn’t much fun. It always feels like it’s going against the grain. Later, of course, it pays off handsomely, for it’s the well-trained who find themselves mature in their relationship with God. Hebrews 12:11 – The Message (MSG)

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