All I have is words, to which I am a slave, hoping they'll save me but im lost, oh im so lost.

I was considering writing a few things in the post, i was encouraged to post by Akersh, he even gave me some good ideas that I will cover in the future.

I guess basically to start, I will tell a little story.

There I was one the same stage that I was on almost exactly a year ago. The same church, and almost the same amount of people in the audience....To me it seemed almost the same as last year. I felt the same, a year older but really not much different...did anything actually change. Well in the second to last song I started thinking (mind you not the best thing to do while trying to sing) but I realized...I wasn't the same...I was indeed more mature, but not in the way many people would believe. This was not maturity in the way most people would say, I was hardly any more ready to live life on my own then I was a year earlier. This maturity was my own maturity...a maturity in my OWN faith that I had found and made mine....

Going on a mission trip this summer required me for my faith to be mine... my parents weren't there to defend what they believed...it was me, my mind and my bible. Yes, somethings that was taught on this trip were not true, and being bombarded by them required me to have my own faith that I could fall on in any situation.

This is the point where my heart breaks. Kids(using the term to mean older kids) today never seem to really grasp their own faith. They are so indoctrinated by their parents that they take things for granted. Not an attack against parents but a faith based on parents and not a strong personal and biblical connection will fall under the lightest of persecution. It is heartbreaking to see how many teens who were devoted Christians lose a grasp of their faith upon receiving opposition from college professors who are set to break them and have the information to support everything they say. This being said I really do encourage our generation to truly grasp our own faith, each our own, and hold it... do not falter when opposition strike because it will. Know what is true, believe it is true, live what is true.