2. Growing up means responsibility in every area of life.
3. Faithfulness in the little stuff is just as important as faithfulness in the big stuff.
4. Your parents are your greatest allies in life, your most winsome problem-solvers, and your smartest teachers.
5. Growing up feels like being stretched, being pushed into new spheres, yanked out of your comfort zone, and thrust into unfamiliar territory.
6. "You may choose to look the other way, but you can never say again that you did not know." - William Wilberforce
7. Anything is achievable with hard, hard work.
8. You don't have to have everything figured out.
9. Besides, life never happens just like you think it will.
10. Good, true, tough, loving friends are hard to come by.
11. Books are counselors, guides, paradigm-shifters, world-processors, indispensable to the thinking, growing Christian.
12. Worrying never, ever, ever pays off.
13. Joy is a choice. And a fight.
14. If you aren't tethered to the Bible, you will drift away like a broken balloon, dying and drifting whichever way the wind takes you.
15. Everything you've done is experience. Learn from it.
16. Growing up is simultaneously fun and terribly messy.
17. Growing up means having to say you're sorry - a lot.
18. Growing up is a season to grow in godliness through new opportunities, new struggles, new failures, new successes, new trials, new joys, and new life.