Raise Your Hand If You A Grown Woman...urghh or Man

I am 35 +plus years old and I noticed lately that a new description of myself has popped up. I have been referred to as a grown woman. See I thought all this time I was a grown woman. You know I have lived a little all the usual things that grown folks do I have done. I have check marks next to marriage/divorce, buying/selling a house,good/bad credit ..jobs in management and raising kids all that. But, I had not yet earned my label of being a true "grown woman".

I am not to upset because it seems I am in good company. My favorite cut on Ms. M.ary J. B.lige's new CD "Breakthrough" is Grown Woman by her and Ludacris. Seems Mary has just earned her new label too.

So what makes us grown. Is it actual age.. you know the number? I don't think so. Is it life and it's experiences ? Not all the time.

I can speak to what made me grown. At least I think has made me grown.

Being grown is taking responsibilities for your actions good or bad.
It's learning how to make choices on fact and emotion. Not just emotion.
It's knowing when life is too big and too hard and that God is bigger than all that.
It's learning how to get on bended knee...everyday.
Being grown is thinking about someone other than yourself and meaning it.
It's knowing loving your kids it's always spoiling your kids and there is a such a thing as tough love.
It's knowing that sometimes you have to save yourself so that there is enough "self" to share with others.
Being grown is knowing finding someone to really love you is hard and, can not be taken lightly.
It's learning to love the biblical way.
Being grown is thinking about the future not just yours but, your children' and your children's children etc.. and making the right choices accordingly.
It's knowing some things really are best left unsaid.
AND...everything is worth praying over.
Being grown means accepting life's bumps and bruises while knowing this too shall pass.. fo real.
It's knowing, understanding, loving and caring the man in the mirror and seeing not what you see but, what God's see.
It's knowing your worth and , not accepting anything less.

Now of course, there is so many more definitions of being grown.
In fact I challenge you please..

Post for me in the comments "WHAT IS YOUR DEFINITION OF BEING GROWN".