Growth is Eternal

I was thinking today of a C.S. Lewis quote that I heard once before the quote goes like this:

"Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house. At first, perhaps, you can understand what He is doing. He is getting the drains right and stopping the leaks in the roof and so on: you knew that those jobs needed doing and so you are not surprised. But presently He starts knocking the house about in a way that hurts abominably and does not seem to make sense. What on earth is He up to? The explanation is that He is building quite a different house from the one you thought of - throwing out a new wing here, putting on an extra floor there, running up towers, making courtyards. You though you were going to be made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace."

I love this quote for many reasons but at the same time there is more to it than we recognize. If we do not allow God to do his will no growth will take place. We may not recognize why something is happening in our life but we can try to learn from the experiences we encounter. If we do and we strive to continue our growth, because there is always more to learn, the growth that we must experience to perfect us will be more bearable.

This may be a little off topic but this lovely singer and I go way back (she used to baby-sit me). This is her first music video and I thought I'd share it...