rebelling against low expectations
ANONYMOUS WRITES: I’m a senior in high school, starting to think about college. My parents want me to go to a certain Christian university. They both attended the school (along with many of my other family members), and my Dad actually teaches there. I respect my parents, and I want to honor and obey them, but for several reasons I’m just not sure if their school is the place that God has for me...
Last Sunday, I was sitting by myself after church and observing the people around me. I found that I could look at almost each person and find something that I knew about them — the part of themselves that they displayed the most, something that defined them. Some of my friends stood in a circle and I instantly picked out the popular girl who quickly became everyone’s best friend. I noticed...
AMANDA WRITES: School is winding down, and I’m getting bored. I feel like I should be doing something other than sitting around doing nothing! I have a fairly busy summer planned, but I also have a lot of hours when I’m just home. Reading books and playing games with siblings isn’t enough to fill all that time. Do you guys have any ideas on how to keep busy during the summer...
All of us have things that we’re insecure about. For most of us, a big portion of those elements are physical — our height or hair or weight or teeth or ears or feet or fingers. But we also can feel insecure in our communication or our intellectual capacity or how we perform a task. Insecurity is like this gall-embittered drink we all taste in our teen years. Almost all of us inevitably...
ANONYMOUS WRITES: I have hurt several of my friends during this past year. Some were hurt more than others. It hurts me very much also. I never intended to bring pain to anyone. All of these instances were at least partially a result of a small misunderstanding. And I consider myself to be more or less at fault in all of them. In some cases, it hasn’t taken more than a few months to get...
rebelling against low expectations
