Are you Growing?

How can you tell whether you are growing?

Ask yourself these questions: are you getting taller?

Are you able to overlook some things you were unable to overlook last year? To overlook the sneering glance, the harsh word, the selfish, the unkind, or malicious deed? 

Serenely to overlook failure when you have done your best? 

Bravely to overlook misfortune when it was unavoidable? 

Cheerily to overlook dark days and darker frowns? 

Are you getting tall enough for this?

Are you getting broader? 

Are you able to see more of the other sides of things than you could see last year? 

Can you look around behind disappointment, and see strengthened faith? Does your vision reach to the other side of men’s faults, and perceive their difficulties, temptations, and struggles? 

Are you learning to look on all sides of your plans and designs proposed to you by others? 

Are you really growing broader?

Amos R. Wells

Let me, then, be always growing,

Never, never standing still;

Listening, learning, better knowing

Thee and Thy most blessed will;

Till I reach Thy holy place,

Unto Him that Hath Thou Givest