Growing Up Types – Protect Your Heart from Hurt

Adult Wisdom -  If you want to get to the heart of a matter you have to first know something about your own heart. Looking at someone else’s heart is a path of never getting to the matter at hand.  According to Nelsons and Unger's Bible Dictionaries "YOUR HEART" is the inner self that thinks, feels, and decides. The heart is also the center of the feelings and affections: of joy; of pain; and all degrees of ill will of dissatisfaction from anxiety to despair; all degrees of fear, from reverential trembling; the center of the moral life; so that all moral conditions, from the highest love of God even down to the self-deifying pride, darkening, and hardening are concentrated in the heart as the innermost life circle of humanity. The heart is the laboratory and origin of all that is good and evil in thoughts, words, and deed; the rendezvous of evil lusts and passions; a good or evil treasure the place where God's natural law is written in us as well as the law of grace; the seat of conscience; the field for the seed of the divine word. It is the dwelling place of Christ in us; of the Holy Spirit; of God's peace; the receptacle of the love of God; the closet of secret communion with God and it is the center of the entire man, the very heart of life's impulse. So you see, it is all about you, never about the other person. You have to protect and guard your own heart, no other person can do that for you. Whatever is in your heart is going to come out of your mouth. Consider making sure that you only allow those things in your heart that you don't mind coming out of your mouth.

Growing Up Types – Rest and Play

Adult Wisdom – Adults know how to rest and have fun. Resting does not mean staying up all night watching TV or playing video games. Rest means adequate time to sleep and adequate quiet time to think. Having fun does not mean doing things that causes you to be sick, in trouble with the law or mishaps in relationships. Fun means healthy laughter and moral relaxation.

Growing Up Types – Trouble Is not looking for you!

"Adult Wisdom – Do not follow people into trouble." Usually when people want to lead you in the wrong direction you will know it because you will get a sensing that something is up; but if you don’t, you at least know what is morally, socially and legally incorrect. The adult Monarch butterflies will spend their winter hibernation in Mexico and some parts of Southern California where it is warm all year long. If you know you need to be safe do what you know is right even when nobody else is watching. This butterfly will not hibernate in a cold climate because it knows that it is cold blooded and need to be in a warm climate to survive. Your survival may depend on who you choose to follow.

Growing Up Types --- Never Give UP

"Have you ever wanted to give up? Remember, the darkest hour is just before dawn and when that happens it’s coming out time not giving up time. Don’t give up, just come on out you have made it." Do not submit to things like intimation.  There are five butterflies, notice that each one is at a different stage in their process but they all have the same resolve, never give up because that is not an option for either butterfly.  No matter what your challenge may be you have in you what is needed to make it.  Don't give up.