God. God is kind, funny, smart, creative, and perfect. He created the world in under a week. A lot can happen in a couple of days if we have patience. He’s my everything and made a plan for me even before I was born. When I’m scared, I go to God. When I’m happy, I go to God. I go to him. He’s my best friend, my peace in chaos, and my Lord and Savior. He’s more than just a “religion.” He sacrificed his only son for us. I walk with him, pray day and night, read the bible, and try to be a good Christian.
I like to ask myself, “What would a good Christian do?” I should ask myself, “What would God do?” It changes the whole perspective. Perspective matters. You might see things in a certain way but if you just change your perspective it can change your life, mind, and decisions. Life can show a lot of examples. It can be like blocks, each piece represents something different. One block can be school, other family, just different things in your life. You can’t redo what you did, but you can move on and try to make what’s wrong right. God helps with that. Plays a big part in it.
God is that voice in your head, “I’m beautiful, handsome, kind, etc.” Those bad thoughts and decisions can be the denial, yourself, or a mistake. Those can make you beautiful so that’s why we shouldn’t cover them. God gave you a mouth to use to spread gospel, we use them to spread fires and hatred. God gave us a Earth with water, food, nature, and peace. We used it and destroyed it. God gives us things, he gives us all we need, but greed takes over and shows some of it away. We just need to be mindful of how we are the answers.
If we surrender and ask God to watch our hearts and minds we can build a relationship with him. He makes me more than happy and I’m grateful to know and have a God like him. He works in mysterious ways and I always expect the unexpected. Me praying and communicating with God makes me feel less empty inside. Praying gives me joy and faith as I walk on this Earth knowing I’ll be ok. I’m free by having God on my side. I appreciate his power, peace, and presence. I appreciate his love and the fact I’m a sinner and he continues to look after me and even when I make mistakes, he encourages me to keep moving forward.
He has felt the feeling that we feel, he relates to us. His presence is one of the many great things about him and that he will write our story. I don’t love him because of what he did, I love him for who he is and the sacrifices he makes for me. Even if everything I have got taken away, if I have God, I have everything and all I need. He gave me my talents like volleyball, crocheting, track, singing, etc. He gave me strength and courage to do things out of my comfort zone. We never know what someone is going through, and they don’t know what we’re going through.
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Kristen Jennings, Class of 2031, Academy Group 7th Grade Writing Class