Growth: 3

The ferociously grasping beast of grumpy takes me into its confidence as the weakness of another imposes on my day. 

Slow, slow, steady on: I turn that which is inside of me around.

I turn my face toward the face of the weakness, not away.

I remember the favor that has been shown me in every weakness I hold in my own pleading hands; I breathe in new love, I breathe out new care.

Slow, slow, careful now. Steady, on.

[[grow, verb: to increase in size or substance; 
to spring up; to develop to maturity]