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Paused On Puberty
October 5, 2007
Ed Young
Well, it happened every year when I was in junior high school. The administration would separate the boys and the girls and they would show us these films on sex education. The girls’ film, I never saw it, was called “From Girl to Woman.” The boys’ film was called “From Boy to Man.” And it was really kind of a funny thing, because we would go into the cafeteria every single year and watch this movie.
There was a guy named Jim who was the star of the show, and I will never forget him. He had this plaid short sleeved shirt on, a pair of Levi 501’s, black high top tennis shoes and it showed him playing basketball. Then the announcer would start and the announcer would say, “Notice Jim. See the muscularity, the peach fuzz on his chin. Notice his voice changing.”
And Jim would be say <voice cracking>, “Pass me the ball.”
And then Jim would walk into his house and grab a big jug of milk and begin to drink the milk out of the milk bottle. And the announcer would come on and say, “Jim is now being interested in girls, the opposite sex.”
And it showed him going over to the phone and dialing this number and the announcer would say, “Let’s listen in.”
Jim would say, “Hey Sally, we have a dance this Friday night and I was wondering if you would go with me. You can? Neato!”
It was a black and white film, kind of a late 50’s, early 60’s rendition. The most hilarious part is it would show Jim kind of kicking back in the chair after he secured the date with Sally and the announcer, this was so cruel, would say, “Notice Jim’s armpits. See the rings of sweat under them. Jim is entering puberty.”
And then it would stop and build and the music would begin and the announcer would say, “Jim is moving from boy to man. From boy to man. This film teaches you the principals and precepts of puberty.”
And I would watch that film every single year. And it left an indelible impression on my life. I have never forgotten Jim. But Jim sort of lived a sad existence, didn’t he? because he was constantly paused on puberty. He never got out of puberty. He never matured. He wore the same outfit every year, the same shoes and everything. He was paused on puberty.
T.S. Well today, the headline of this talk is being paused on puberty. Because as I look around the landscape of our world today, I see a lot of people who are paused on puberty.
Now, adolescence is a great thing to go through, right? We all go through it. And one day we’re walking down the prim rose path of life and this testosterone title wave hits us or this estrogen eruption occurs and we’re like, “Whoa. What’s happening to my body?”
And we go through those awkward teenage years. And the thing that is so interesting about being a teenager is that has to be the only time in life, the only stage in life where we think we’re bullet proof. Do you know what I’m saying? We think we’re omniscient and omnipotent. We think that we’re above and beyond anybody and everything.
Talk to most teenagers and they’ll tell you, anybody over 35 is clueless and anybody over 50 is comatose. That’s just the way it is. It’s hard to tell teenagers anything. If you can remember back to when you were a teenager or maybe we have some teenagers in the house, maybe, just maybe, you remember that. And you’re thinking, “You know what? I thought I knew everything. But now as I look back on that transitional stage (that’s a keyword, transitional stage) I realize I didn’t know as much as I thought I knew.”
And that’s a big, big key because when you look at Scripture, Scripture compares physical development and spiritual development. If you look at the book of Hebrews, for example, Hebrews 6:1. The writer tells us to, “Go onto maturity.”
I love that. To go onto maturity. So to get to it we have to go through it. Say that with me. To get to it we have to go through it. And adolescence is a stage we have to get through. It’s a wonderful stage, an exciting stage, a stage of life and energy and a whole new world opens us to us; however, it is dangerous, though, when we become paused on puberty like Jim, when we just wear the proverbial plaid short sleeved shirt and 501’s and black high top sneakers in a black and white film for the rest of our existence. There’s more for us out there. And that’s why the Scriptures say for us to go onto maturity.
There are basically several stages of spiritual maturity. And spiritual maturity, we have been discovering, is available for all of us. It is not just reserved for a few. It is not just reserved for the Billy Graham’s or the Mother Teresa’s out there or the Bible teachers or this man or this woman or someone else. It is reserved for every single person.
The first phase has got to be the infancy phase. And that’s what we talked about last time. It’s the playpen-whining, Gerber-dining, nap-timing mentality. You’re just born again. You’re in your spiritual pampers, so to speak. It is your parents’ desire for you to mature. They feed you and they want to teach you and train you how to feed yourself.
And then from there, stage one, we move into stage two. Stage two is this spiritual puberty, this spiritual adolescence that we all go through.
But I have to say, I think more people live in puberty; more people press the pause button in this stage of development than in any other stage because the next stage is the mature stage. That’s the spiritual parent stage.
And how do you know that you’re mature? Well, you don’t have to say it; people just know it because you show it.
Jesus said, “I will know my followers by the fruit that they produce.” Jesus is the bridegroom, the church is the bride. When you have intimacy and worship, the result is reproduction.
And so often people will say, “It was so deep. The glory of God fell. The worship was intense.” And those times are rich times. They are wonderful times. But I always ask this question: Where are the babies? What about the kids? Because if it’s true biblical intimacy, you’re going to have a lot of babies. And that’s one of the beautiful things about this house, about this work, about this church. We have a bunch of babies out there.
But how do we move, though, that’s the question, from the pacifier stage to the puberty stage? And how do we move from the puberty stage to the maturity stage?
Well, those are great questions, because I want you to seriously evaluate where you are today along this path, along this process. I want you to think about it and I want you to sort of put yourself where you think you are. Also, I want to challenge you to really do some of the things that we’re going to talk about to take you through adolescence to the mountain of maturity.
So if I could say again, here’s what you need to do, here is the down low, here’s the skinny on the gimmy, as they say in Australia; you have to evaluate where you are and you have to see where the process takes you and what you have to do to get to the mountain of maturity. But once again, we’re talking about puberty.
What is puberty? Well puberty is an interesting time. It is the iPod blaring, Ed Hardy wearing, Juicy Couture comparing stage of invisibility. What do adolescents do? Adolescents, first of all, advertise their autonomy. “I’m in charge. I’m running the show. I know what’s best for me.”
Illus: When I was 15 I got my driver’s permit, and that meant I could drive up until 8 o’clock p.m. But the deal was I had to be at home by 8 o’clock p.m. I will never forget the first time I convinced my mom and dad to allow me to use mom’s station wagon to take Lisa home after Wednesday night church. She gave me the keys, and church ended at about 7:00 p.m. and I had to be in by 8:00 p.m. And Lisa’s home was about 15 minutes from church. So I could drop her off and drive the 30 minutes to where we lived out in the country.
So church was over, and right before I left mom said, “Ed, again, your father and I want this to be perfectly clear. Be home by 8 o’clock p.m. Drop Lisa off and drive straight home.”
“Yes, ma’am.”
So I had the keys and the station wagon. And back in the day this station wagon had like a 454 engine. This thing was suped up or something. Back then they overpowered everything.
I took Lisa home and I was feeling so autonomous, so in charge. I thought I was the ultimate tower of power. I parked the car at her house and walked her to the door. And when you’re in love and everything you start talking. And I gave her a couple of kisses and time you’re not even thinking about time. And I glanced at my watch and it was 8:45.
I wasn’t that freaked, because again, I’m autonomous. I’m a teenager. I’m 15. I’m thinking, “Who cares?” But I did, down deep.
So I jumped in the station wagon. I will never forget racing home. And you know sometimes when you know you’re going to be in major trouble and you’re so rebellious, you just start laughing? I was just laughing.
“I’m going to get grounded. I’m insane. I lost my mind!”
And finally I got to our sub division and I drove in. We had this guard gate thing. There was never a guard there; I don’t know why it had a guard gate. I was going through all the curves and then I passed this car. It was nighttime already, and I’m thinking to myself, “That looked like my father’s car. But there’s no way it was Dad’s car, because Dad always has meetings after Wednesday night church.”
So I was driving in and laughing. I was thinking, “I can get by my mother easy. She is just a push over. It is no big deal. Dad might be kind of mad, but whatever.”
So I drive into our driveway and I look and Dad’s car is not there. And I’m was singing, “Hallelujah!”
So I walk inside and my mother was pale and she goes, “Ed, where have you been?”
I said, “I’m sorry; time got away.” I was open and honest. I said, “I gave Lisa a couple of kisses and here I am.” I said, “Dad had a meeting tonight at church?”
She said, “No. He went out looking for you.”
And then I see the headlights on the trees coming up the driveway on those beautiful Carolina pines. I hear the car screech to a halt and I hear Dad get out. And he is so mad, he is just shaking. My brother is with him and Ben is behind Dad going, “Get him!”
Dad says, “Car keys.”
I gave him the keys.
He said, “Driver’s license.”
I take my wallet out and I begin to take my driver’s license out and he goes, “Just give me the whole wallet!” Then he goes, “Your summer is mine!”
And whenever my father lowers his left eye like that, you better head for the hills. Sure enough, my summer was his, or however you say that. Because I spent some serious time doing some serious yard work. We had this big yard and this enormous flower bed. This thing had to be 50 yards long, it seemed like. And we had this nut grass break out, and he made me crawl on my hands and knees for I don’t know how many days just pulling up nut grass. It was horrible.
Our God tells us things to do, spiritual teenagers. He says, “Be in by 8:00 p.m. Here are the car keys. Okay, you can drive the car.”
And what do we do? What do teenagers do? Basically, we say, “I know what’s best for me. I’m going to do what I want to do.”
And we put some headphones on and do what we want to do, listen to who we want to listen to. Because when our will and God’s will; when our desires and God’s desires clash and collide, usually spiritual teenagers will do what they want to do.
Now if it is cool to go God’s way, we will do it. But normally, if it’s a real intersection, we will go the way we want to go. And ultimately, spiritual teenagers, we’ll end up on our hands and knees pulling nut grass in the weed beds of life. And that’s not a great place or a good place to be.
So we do that. We have the opportunity to put the headphones on and just drown others out.
Illus: When Lisa and I were flying just recently half way across the world, we had the headphones that the airline gives us out. And they have these big things. And it was amazing; I could put those things on and I could sleep. And several times Lisa was saying something to me and I didn’t really want to talk to her. So I just looked at her like, “Huh? Okay.” Don’t tell her that.
But that’s what we do with God. We just put the headphones on. We listen to our voice and what we want to listen to and it’s a sign, again, of being a spiritual teenagers.
Spiritual teenagers also do something else that is interesting. They will put the chef’s hat on and they will make a big pot of gumbo. Spiritual teenagers say, “You know what, I can have it all. I can do it all. I can put a little occupation in there, a little vacation in there, a little recreation in there; I can golf in the high 70’s and be the ultimate soccer mom. Or I can coach this team or that team and we can go here and there on the weekends. And then I can take a dash of God and sprinkle a little God in the gumbo and stir it up and everything is good.”
Well, you can’t play that game with God, because if you put a little splash of God in there, a little dash of God in there, he’s going to mess up, if you hear what I’m saying to you, the whole recipe.
But I’m just blown away at spiritual adolescence sand how spiritual teenagers do that. We have the headphones on; the chef’s hat on. We’re just stirring our own stew, making our own gumbo, doing our own thing and listening to our own words.
Well, we do advertise our autonomy as teenagers. But also we do something else. And again, when I say “we” I’m talking about spiritual teenagers. We also do something else. Spiritual teenagers realize responsibilities. I think spiritual teenagers stop here, press the pause button and we kind of look past the planes of puberty to the mountains of maturity and a lot of spiritual teenagers say, “I’m just going to live here in my 501’s, my short sleeve plaid shirt, my black, high top tennis shoes and I’m going to be like Jim. I’m just going to stay here for the rest of my life.”
Because here’s what Jesus said. Jesus said, “Count the cost.” He said that. Count the cost. So we better count the cost and think about the implications of things.
And a lot of spiritual teenagers think about what’s going to happen, what they will have to do, what they will have to commit to and it’s like, “I’ll just, like, vacillate between the pacifier stage and the puberty stage. I kind of like this. I can kind of be in limbo.”
But if we’re in limbo and we press the pause button, we will never discover the greatness that God has for us. Because remember, God wants to take us places we never dreamed possible. We will never go to those places unless we go onto maturity. So to get to it we have to go through it.
So what am I talking about when I say count the cost? Well, Jesus said count the cost and those of us who want to go onto maturity we better count the cost because there is a relational cost. Now at this point a lot of spiritual adolescents say, “That is a pretty heavy, a relational cost.”
You talk to anybody and they’ll talk about friendships and relationships. Like I have said many times before, you can meet my best friends without ever meeting me and know what kind of person I am. I can do the same for you. I don’t care who you are, what you have or what you don’t have, where you’re from or where you’re not from; I can talk to your friends and I could know what kind of person you are.
So spiritual teenagers think about the relational cost and think this is a heavy cost. Well, here is what the scripture says in 2 Corinthians 6:14, the most unpopular verse in the entire Bible to spiritual teenagers. It says “Do not be yoked together with unbelievers.”
You go, “Yoke? A yoke? That is a joke. I’m an egg white person.”
No, a yoke is something else. A yoke is a wooden device that you yoke two animals to of equal strength, animals that are like one another like a couple of cows or a couple of donkeys or some oxen. If they are equally yoked and obviously the yoke is tethered to a plow, you’re going to be able to plow in a straight line. You’re going to be able to go from infancy to adolescence, from adolescence to maturity. Because this whole Christianity sport is a one-another thing.
So it says, “Do not be yoked together with unbelievers for what do righteousness and wickedness have in common or what fellowship can light have with darkness?”
Now spiritual teenagers think about this and say, “I’m single and this verse just chopped off about 2/3 of the potential candidates that I could date and marry. I don’t dig this. I like kind of vacillating between the infancy, the pacifier stage, and the adolescence stage. I don’t really like that.”
And some who are married are like, “Whoa, I don’t want my closest friends, my closest marital friends to be people who have the same divine denominator as me. I mean, I want to have a little fun, a little party, do a little this and do a little that.”
And it is tough. I mean, there is a relational cost because you’re going to have fewer friends and you’re going to have fewer dates. This verse does not say, because I know what you’re thinking, I should cut off everybody in my life who does not know Christ. No. The Bible calls us to be salt and light and leaven. The Bible calls us to penetrate a darkened world, to build relationships with people who are far away from God without compromise.
It does say, though, in black and white right here, that God has our best interests in mind. That is why he tells us to have our closest comrades or friends or people we date or whatever you want to call them, the people we hang out with, need to be believers. Because can you image having a deep relationship with someone who you cannot share that which is most near and dear to your heart with? Can you imagine not being able to share with someone on the deepest level possible? Because if you’re not hooked up with a believer in a close relationship, it’s not going to happen. There is a relational cost. Students, a relational cost. Singles, a relational cost. Those who are married, a relational cost.
There is also, notice this, a time cost. It takes some time to develop an intimate relationship with Jesus. What’s the goal? It is to become the spiritual parent, to have intimacy and reproduction, to become unselfish, to get outside of me and think about others.
Talk to any parent and they’ll tell you that. But parents will also say, “You know what, I used to be cool. I used to really be cool, but the teenagers made me uncool. They totally messed me up.”
And that’s okay. As we think about others, sometimes we’ll have to do things that are uncool, things that aren’t the hippest things out there. We’re called to do it. We’re called to spend time with the Lord every day. We’re called to be here in this house when the church doors are open for weekend worship. We’re called to serve.
So there is a time cost. So there’s a relational cost. Again, you better count the cost. Again, I’m not going to tell you something it’s not. No smoke and mirrors deal. You better count the relational cost and also count the time cost, because you’re going to have to reallocate your time.
But there’s another cost, the money cost, the finances. It is going to cost. Again, I’m not playing with you today, spiritual teenagers. And I hope you know this; I’m not talking about chronological age. I’m not saying just if you’re 15. I’m not talking about that. Because some people who are old chronologically are teenager’=s spiritual or spiritual infants. Others who are young might be spiritual parents. I’m just talking about spiritual immaturity and going from immaturity to puberty; from puberty to maturity. I’m talking about going from boy to man; from girl to woman.
But there’s a financial cost. Jesus talked about money so much in Scripture. He said, “Where you’re treasure is, there your heart will be also.”
And to give you, again, the headlines, 10 percent is a minimum worship requirement; 10 percent of everything we have should go to the House. We don’t give it, because it’s not ours to give; it’s God’s. We bring it. And that’s just showing up to this parade. That’s just showing up to this process as we’re going onto maturity. Because remember, to get to it we have to go through it.
So spiritual teenagers count, before you get serious about this; before you really evaluate where you are and think about what you have to do to go to the mountain of maturity, to become this parent; think about the cost. Think about the relational and the time and the financial costs.
But here is something else I have to tell you. Here is the skinny on the gimmy, again. Are you ready for this? When I do relationships God’s way, the blessings that I will accrue in my life are beyond belief. I have walked with the Lord for a long, long time. And I have the greatest friendships, marriage, relationships that any man could have on the planet because, by God’s mercy and grace, I have done relationships his way. So I’m telling you it works. If you doubt it, just look at me and look at many, many others here who have made this.
So God will bless us relationally like he will never bless you if you do your own deal relationally.
Time. Who do you think invented time? Who is the author of time? I didn’t. You didn’t. God did. So if I’m spending time with the author of time, he’s going to multiply my time daily. If I’m spending time with the author of time weekly, he’s going to multiply my time. So God will multiply it. Because when we spend time with him we have the opportunity to say, “God I’m going to take the headphones off. I’m going to give you the chef’s hat. You stir the gumbo. You tell me about priorities. You tell me about reconciliation. You tell me about relationships. You tell me about my grandchildren. You tell me about my friends or whatever.”
God is going to do the deal. “God, you balance this recreation and my occupation. God, I give it to you because I can’t do it.”
He is in charge of the gumbo and cooking up all the food. And remember, all of God’s food is delicious.
You know, when a lot of people who are paused on puberty, it is so true that when they are paused in adolescence, as they count the cost because people, we’re pretty smart. We will go there is a relational cost, there’s a time cost and there’s a financial cost. Here is what spiritual teenagers will do, because again, teenagers are pretty bright. They will go, “I’m not going to do it. I’m just going to stay here.”
And then they begin to do something that is so interesting. They begin to take pot shots at the church. Have you discovered that? Whenever someone takes pot shots at the church, they’re just advertising the fact that they’re a spiritual adolescent. It is okay. Think about teenagers. Teenagers say things; I said things that I’m thinking, “Why did I say that to my parent? I was an idiot. I didn’t know what was going on.”
So the spiritual teenagers will say a lot of idiotic things about the church. We’re parents and we understand. We love you. But don’t freak and don’t follow those things.
You know you’re a spiritual teenager if you make comments like this: Number 1, the church is too big. I will say it again; the church is too big.
The first church I talked about last time. The Acts 2 church grew to 3000 in about 10 minutes. Well in a very, very short time it grew to 70,000 people in attendance. 70,000! So if you don’t like big, you would not like the early church. And they had a pretty good pastor, Simon Peter. He was okay. And of course heaven is going to be big as well.
Here is another one; this is one of my favorites: It is not deep enough. When anyone says that, they’re a playpen-whining, Gerber-dining, nap-timing infant. Or they’re an iPod-blaring, Ed Hardy-wearing, Juicy Couture-comparing adolescent. They’re saying, “You know what? I can’t feed myself.”
And usually, when people think they’re being deep, they’re actually being muddy. And I would rather be the Mediterranean than the Mississippi. That’s why Jesus said in John 4:34, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work.”
Usually, when people are saying “It’s not deep enough,” or “I’m not being fed,” they are really saying, “I want it to be more academic.”
I think Augustine said, “I love truth that informs me, but I hate truth that challenges me and transforms me.”
But I would much rather be transformed than informed, and I know you would as well.
Hebrews 5:14, “Solid food…,” I mean steak and lobster, “…is for the mature.” It is for the parents. You’re not going to feed your teenager steak and lobster. You’re not going to waste money very much on that. That’s going to be that special time.
“Solid food is for the mature who by constant use…” By what? I can’t hear you. Say it like you mean it. Constant use! “…have trained…” That’s diet and exercise that’s what we are here. We’re a diet and exercise church. “…have trained themselves to distinguish good from evil.”
So in other words, solid food is for the mature, who by using the nourishment; the food is feeding my soul and it’s feeding me to get up and do the stuff. Those who by constant use have trained themselves, it’s like a muscle being trained, to do what? To distinguish. The word distinguish here could be “discern,” good and evil.
Adolescents, generally speaking, don’t have great discernment. That is why we have so many awesome spiritual parents here at Fellowship who help the adolescents with the decisions as they negotiate the maze of life.
So you know you’re a spiritual teenager when you say the church is too big, it’s not deep enough, and how about this one? The church is full of hypocrites.
Now that has always been interesting, because I have heard that a lot. And when I say that or you say that, of course you’re talking to a hip-hopping, pimple-popping, cuss word-dropping teenager. But when they say that, though, they’re comparing themselves with someone else. By virtue of me saying that the church is full hypocrites, I’m saying, “How about him, how about her.” I’m comparing myself with him or her.
Well, what does Scripture say? Scripture says it’s unfair to compare. The Bible says I don’t compare myself with others. God doesn’t grade on some cosmic curve. I compare myself to who? Jesus. It’s not about others. It’s about Jesus. So I’m comparing myself with others when I say that.
Secondly, the church is full of hypocrites…right! I’m a hypocrite and you’re a hypocrite. Everybody is a hypocrite, because a hypocrite is somebody who says one thing and does another. I think I have done that today, haven’t you?
Here is the fourth statement when you hear this you know you’re talking to a spiritual teenager: The church is only interested in my money. Well, Jesus talked about it probably as much as anybody. In fact, that is one of the top subjects mentioned throughout Scripture. And that’s why we talk about it so much, because God talked about it so much. So if you have a problem with it, talk to God.
But we have an opportunity, because we have been blessed by God, to be a river, not a dam. And as we bring it to the church, we can fund and finance the kingdom while God is blessing us and while we are showing God and others that he is number one.
Here is another one, the fifth one: You know you’re talking to a teenager when they say, well none of my friends are at church. Have you ever heard a teenager say that before? I have said that before.
“Mom and Dad, I don’t want to go. None of my friends are at church.”
Well, that is kind of the victim mentality. We have a lot of martyrs and victims in today’s world. “I’m just a victim. I’ll play the victim card, martyr card. No one talked to me. No one noticed me. No one helped me. No one patted me on the back. No one asked me how I was doing at that church.”
Well, what is the antithesis of this mentality? It’s to be a friend! Whatever I want, I give. So if I give it, that’s what I’m going to get. So whatever I give, I’m going to get it. I share my faith; God is going to share with me. I serve in the church; God is going to have things to serve me. I sow; God is going to sow into my life. It is interesting.
So as a parent, as I get outside of myself and help and coach spiritual teenagers and infants, I am going to be blessed while I’m doing this.
Now these are fine. It is okay to say these five things. And spiritual parents, we have to go and say, “Listen, I understand. You’re going to say things that are idiotic when you’re a kid, when you’re a teenager. We all have said them, haven’t we?”
But here is the bottom line of the deal. At this point, hey spiritual teenager, what do you do? Because I have noticed that teenage runaways are a problem, that teenagers leaving the home is an epidemic around our world today. Some teenagers at this point say, “You know what? I’m just going to leave home!”
And they scream at their parents and they turn their back on authority. They get out from under authority and they go to another house or another home. Because they say, “You know what, Mom and Dad? I’m going to live there because they understand me. They love me. They’ll give me freedom. They’ll let me do and say what I want to do.”
And the moment, spiritual teenager, you get out from underneath the authority of God, your local house, you are in the elements. If you stay in the house like the prodigal son should have done. The prodigal son’s problem is, he left the house. If he had stayed in the house, in the blessed place, are you realizing the inheritance? But he left the house, went his own way.
And I talk to so many spiritual teenagers who just leave the house and they will go from house to house. And by doing so, they never reap and enjoy the blessings and the benefits of being in the house and being coached and challenged by parents and by being carried on and moved onto maturity.
So don’t freak out spiritual teenager; don’t say, “I’m going to leave because I don’t understand something or whatever.” Stay in it and God will do mighty, mighty things in your life.
So two things that I’m going to challenge you to do spiritual teens, and I believe every teenager here wants to do it to go to the mountain of maturity. Number 1, is time to manifest our maturity. To do that, and I just said it, we have to submit our lives to God’s authority, submit our autonomy to God’s authority. Did you hear that? Submit our autonomy to God’s authority. God has placed people in our lives, parents in our lives, pastors in our lives, coaches, teaches, etc., to mold and make us into the kind of people that he desires us to become. If we get out from underneath that covering, we will never go up because to go up we’ve to get under. Say it with me, to go up we have to get under.
Second thing, it is time to break camp and to begin to climb the mountain of maturity. You begin to mountain climb, you begin to go where God wants you to go and it is going to cost you something. A relational cost, a time cost, a financial cost, all sorts of costs. But the cost is worth it.
So come on teenagers, it is time to move ahead. Don’t be Jim and press the pause button. Press the play button and move from boy to man, from girl to woman. Because when you do, you’ll discover what the delicious life is all about.