Growth

I am eager to grow beyond all horizons

It’s the need of the time, it’s the right time

Only a troubled sea makes a skilled sailor

Growth is joy; growth is actualization of my potential

I started to grow, not in the way I wished, not in the way I wanted

I grew slowly at sometimes but rapidly most of the times

Then it happened. My growth came to a standstill.

I didn’t grow anymore as I wished

Someone said to me I would help you to grow

I accepted his way, willingly, happily and cheerfully.

He led me to an unknown place

He started to teach me. I protested. I revolted.

I threw stones at him.

It’s not the growth I require I said. Demands are too high.

Help‘s too little. Time is short.

He consoled me. He smiled at me. He spoke to me in a soft voice.

I know you. You want to grow. Go through it with the similar erstwhile joy, you will grow.

My potential knew no bounds

It is my pleasure to grow

But I do not want to listen

I do not want to pay the prize

Clay gets moulded

A stone gets sharpened

They are rejected role models

Still, I need growth beyond all limits

Tell me how I shall grow without

Paying the prize?

I am stingy to pay any prize

I am too confident to receive anything

Tell me how shall I grow?

Finally, it began once again slowly, and steadily

It lightened whole of my being

I realized growth as I bow my head

To grow, the more I grew

Growth is not upward or side ways

Growth is not going above the head of others

Growth is going into the midst of other

Growth is a process of walking with the other.

Let’s hold our hands together

To grow beyond our limits

Our potential knows no boundaries

Let’s break all barriers with holding hands.

Bro. Thykkattu Christy S.D.B.