Maturity is Not Letting Things Drag On

What is emotional maturity, or more specifically, emotionally healthy spirituality?

It’s being self-aware. It’s recognizing destructive thoughts patterns. It’s separating emotions and feelings from reality. It’s the ability to engage in conversations with people, especially people you disagree with, in a civil way. It’s maintaining healthy relations

“Maturity is defined by the level of responsibility we’re willing to accept.”

I’ve had deep conversations with my boys on this. The more mature you are, the more responsibility you accept—for your actions, thoughts, behavior, time in the Word, emotions, finances…you name it. If you’re sloughing it off on someone else, odds are, you have some room to

My God, how childish can people get? And they don’t know their childishness. They’ve got to blame somebody. But, no. Maturity is understanding that no one is to blame. Or better still, and more accurately put, maturity is not giving yourself the childish emotional outlet of blaming others or yourself but, rather, seeing what went wrong and setting

One sign of maturity is a realization of the extent to which you, either intentionally or unintentionally, make life difficult for those around you. Consequently, you should keep in mind the words of Seneca: “we are bad men living among bad men; and only one thing can calm us—we must agree to go easy on one another.