When I returned home from Back to School Nite tonight, I found both my little people still up. Natey needed me to lay by him. Maryn said her legs hurt (growing pains)! So I whispered to her that I would be right back and went to lay with Natey for just a minute. When I got back to her, she was in tears, she was crying out for me and she was hurting. Now I know about growing pains. I suffered from them too so I'm always very quick to rub her legs because I remember how bad they hurt. I'm sure many of you remember "growing pains". So I layed down next to her and rubbed her legs and helped her calm down. She said through her little tears and sniffles, "I had growning pains." I told her I know... everyone has to grow. She fell asleep in about 10 minutes. My dad used to always rub my legs for me to calm me down too. Thanks Daddy!

I was thinking how much that is just like life. We have to go through growing pains. Thankfully, we have a loving Heavenly Father who we can cry out to through our tears when we are hurting. He has been there and knows how we feel. He loves us more than I even love my little Maryn. He will rub out our "legs" and calm us down so we can move to the next day. She'll be fine in the morning. She'll be smiling and ready for a new adventure! (If I were really clever, I would have a picture of her little legs on this post! So much for clever!)