Growing up: taking the plunge

When do you stop being a kid? For many of us, never. When do you start being an adult? That’s a trickier question. There are dozens of little milestones that mark your physical and emotional development.

Was there a time in your life you felt yourself stepping across that line? When you turned 21 or got your driver’s license or graduated from school or got a full-time job or joined the Marines or got married and left home? And now you’re grown up.

Last week at our church it was Confirmation Sunday. Thirty middle-school teens stood up in front of the whole congregation and expressed in their ow...