I'm very mature for my age, but I'm also innocent in a lot of ways.

Evolution is constant. Evolving better is individual’s conscience.

Not Eve:Under any condition, in any situation, a mature woman does not need to be checked by her man. She is not childish, but fully capable of [a] self check if she respects the wisdom given to her by The Most High; her name ain't Eve.

And though our roots belong to the same tree, our branches have grown in different directions.

If as an adult I have scolded and then silenced the child within me, I contend that I am neither an adult nor a child. Rather, I am just plain ignorant.

I had a dream that boys would act like men for once…then I woke up.

You can’t just be. You have to become.

-just on the verge ofbecoming a woman, and in these three years and almost five months, I'dreached maturity. I was older than the mountains outside. The wisdomof the attic was in my bones, etched on my brain, part of my flesh.

To abandon the child ‘within’ means that the adult ‘without’ will be an adult in name only. And frankly, I can only name a handful of things that are that tragic.

If you want to be a strong, maturing Christian, your first priority is to develop a closer relationship with God.