A Better You Blog

Maturity is not just chronological. Here are 15 signs that an adult is still stuck thinking or acting like a 3-year-old.

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Your choices are based on your identity, yet every choice you make determines who you are. The identity you construct yields decisions, attitudes, and actions that are puzzle pieces of your life, which fit together intricately to create a beautiful mosaic that is you. What will your picture reveal? Will you be proactive in life, or allow others to take you along for the ride? It is easy to figure out who you are: you are who you create yourself to be, who you become, even at this moment. Every decision you make contributes a piece to the art of your existence. Search endlessly to find who you are, and your masterpiece will be filled with longing, existential angst, wandering, and aimlessness. Decide to create a better you, to design yourself around your desires, priorities, beliefs, and giftings, and you will see the masterpiece that is meant to be. Complete the exercise below and you will know who you are so you can decide who you want to be and what your life will say.

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I just had a brush with death. I almost did not make it home tonight. Out of nowhere, a car ran a red light and sped my way. Luckily, another SUV was beside me and stopped first, alerting me to danger (since the speeding car was out of my line of sight). I hit the brakes quickly, relieved my 4-year-old daughter in the backseat was okay. We were inches away from death. Shaken and relieved, I said a quick prayer. God must be trying to tell me something today, and I am better for it.

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Have you ever had to wait on a biopsy, or some medical test that carried potentially devastating news? I had two areas of my skin biopsied today, and now I must take my own advice and manage the stress of uncertainty. I thought it would be timely and healing for me to write about how I deal with uncertainty, especially while waiting to hear whether I have some form of cancer. As a wife and mother of three young children, my first reaction is fear. My natural instinct wants to give in to my old habit of worrying about what might be. I have learned, however, that life is better when I ride with the waves rather than swim against the current. So I choose to float along, keep my head above water, and wait out the storm. And I find I am remarkably at peace.

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