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Hey family! What is up? My name is Ryan and I'm healing from growth. Now question, when

you were younger, did you ever ask yourself or think to yourself, man I can't wait till

I'm grown so I can get up out of this house. Okay? Well if it was you, raise your hand

in the room and in the chat because I hear you, I feel you, I was you. But the more I think

about it, the more I realize that when I was younger I thought that being grown really

just meant that I had the freedom to do whatever I wanted when I wanted. But as I got older

as I'm sure a lot of you adults can attest in the room, the more that I realized that

adulting is actually an entire scam. And you know before you agreed too much it's probably

not the scam that you're thinking. So you're probably thinking of the scam of paying

bills and having all these responsibilities that no one told you about. That's not what

I mean. I mean the scam that a lot of us think that being an adult means that we're mature.

And that's not it at all. That's not it at all. You see adulthood is defined by age but

maturity is characterized by growth. And perhaps the biggest scam of all that really got

me off is that believing that when we grow that we won't experience pain. But the thing

is when we think about it, growth is pain. In the book Leadership Pain Dr. Samuel Chin

spells out this beautiful equation. He says that growth equals change. Change equals loss.

Loss equals pain. And therefore growth equals pain. And the pain that we experience is secretly

outlined in John 1516 by Jesus. He says this. He says, you have not chosen me but I have

chosen you and I have appointed and placed and purposefully planted you so that you would

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