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Just when you think your're done! Our voices are changed. We're as tall as we'll ever be. We're no longer going to grow out of our shoes before we wear them out. And we'll be shaving every day until our last...

We have done it! Our long, hard years of painful growth spurts and physical clumsiness are over (well not me all the time, but you know me...)!

Granted, we'll be physically changing on some level forever. Our faces will fill out, we'll get wrinkles, and our hair will either turn gray or fall out. But all things said, we've reached physical maturation.

But where does that leave us?

We're finally comfortable with where our bodies have left us off, and it hits us! For me, it was a few weeks into college my college career. I found myself on a picnic table behind my dorm challenging people's beliefs on abortion. This was the first time I had ever found myself defending my beliefs to people that I knew very little about. And now, five years later, I'm only deeper into my psyche. Being challenged in my beliefs daily. And you know what? It doesn't stop there!...

I feel like every day now my CORE is tested. My HEART is (let's see if i can find the word...) challenged. Everything from finding what is becoming my own faith to answering the questions the lie on the surface of my soul. The unanswered questions that seem to come to the surface every day.

Just like when we were teens, we're changing every moment. Although this time it's not our physical appearance that is changing. It is our presence of mind. Every day that passes, we are one day closer to where this "Emotional Puberty" will drop us off. This is where we are... This is what people our age do!

And when all is said and done, we will have become Emotionally Mature. Just like the growing pains of our teenage years left our bodies off at a certain height with a certain look that will slowly change in time, these emotional changes will leave us standing as a mature adult, ready to take on the world we will build for ourselves.

Once again, I'm growing towards a person that I am loving more and more every day (does that sound full of myself? I hope not!).