Growing Up as Generation Z (Karla Reyes)

 Values

~Self-respect.

~Rising up despite challenges that help me grow as a person.

~Individual acceptance. Accepting myself despite what’s going on around the world today regarding biblical end times signs.

~Church time is important.

~Setting boundaries when I know it’s hard as humans to say no, especially with people I care about or that we care about in better terms.

~Seeking the well-being of my neighbor (in general), not just my own.

~Embracing brokenness and healing. Sometimes we try to want to mend wounds we didn’t cause but God is faithful to restore, so allowing God to do the work is best.

~Work-life balance. Accepting when it’s time to let go and seek better opportunities for mental-health guarding and mending to. Sometimes we want to put ourselves in a box and we don’t seek proper advice or proper training to just move on from what was just temporal and I do believe that’s a mental health battle. Not one of being diagnosed, but of battling to stay calm and not be anxious. So rooting myself in scripture that’s positive I definitely my go-to in life for well-being too.

Growing up as Generation Z

-Meeting random classmates that I never met in my life.

-Going to school seemed easy as a kid until young adolescent required maturing and growing up too fast because the tech world demanded it. Which I don’t mind, but no one bothered to explain the ‘why’s.’

-Challenges seemed to have to be acceptable not as a reward but as a growth mechanism.

-Becoming a youth adult was part of the process. When you hit your mid-20s, you start to achieve, and achieve and then you’re like: “oh snap! What’s next?” Mentality’s.

-Always trying to fix a minor responsibility and hustling was always the ideal motive.

-Socials and learning how to set boundaries guarded me from a lot of wasting time.

If I can go back in time, I would change:

~Trying to question so much, and just leave it in God’s hands.

~Understanding deeper my Christian roots.

~Not questioning so much ‘why’s’ that it looks like a pity party but it’s not.

~Answering to God.

~Psalms 37:4 values.

~Deep faith growth.

~Moving mountains mentality’s.

~Caring for the things of God and His people. Reaching what we call: lost souls or in better terms a neighbor, ‘hi neighbor!’ I would do more of it. 

~Try to help people heal but I was too young to understand what healing meant.

I would find broken glass on the streets and it portrayed to my brain broken pieces. 

I would see gardens and feel a sense of calmness. If God created all of this than everything’s going to turn out for good: Romans 8:28. 

~Being a rule follower instead of a rule breaker but stepping out of the norm to discover who I am in Christ.