Adult to Adult

This message is to anyone who is 18 and beyond. Welcome to adulthood!

You are old enough to vote and we hope you will. You are old enough that all your medical records are withheld from your parents without your consent. You have reached the age of maturity!

This does not mean you know everything yet, but you are on the path. I want to personally encourage you to be strong and begin to make your own decisions. You may seek advice, but you do not need to have permission. It is your life, and part of the wonderful responsibility of adulthood is just that – responsibility. You get to take accountability for your decisions and you live with the result of those decisions. If you don’t like the results you got, make a new decision. One decision builds upon another. We each need a good knowledge base to make decisions, developed by continually asking questions from wise people, reading book about the lives of people who went before us. Observe others and what has happened to them because of their decisions. We can blame no one-even though other people may have been involved. We are now fully capable and need to learn how to make the adult decisions necessary for our best.

This gives us greater concern for our actions, and for our life, because we alone are responsible for how we turn out and how we treat others.

Do not turn your responsibility over to someone else out of fear of making a wrong decision. You have good judgment, use it, study the matter and don’t let other people try and tell you what they think you should or shouldn’t do. That is not their place.

Don’t let daily fears of growing up prevent you from looking ahead. Your attitude and things will change as you continue to grow older and acquire more wisdom.

Emotions can seem so fickle and we can feel so insecure. Don’t be afraid when your path seems narrow or dark. God will help you. He will give you enough light to see the next step. He will bring you to what is best for you. He made you to grow up and make good decisions