Beauty in the Bramble

Personal growth is very similar to yard work for me.  The work that still needs to be done is so palpable you can see clearly all the places where you can and will get hurt or where things could go wrong.  Once you've taken a break it's really hard to pick up your momentum again.  Then one day you notice a glimmer of something lovely to be found in the work you have left to do.  

 Maybe feeling pain is better than feeling nothing?  Maybe feeling it all at once is better than never feeling any of it?