A Teenagers Letter To God

Dear God,

  Lord, If you are really out there somewhere, won't you please listen to what I have to say?  I have searched everywhere and have tried talking to everyone I know, and even some I didn't know.  The replies I get always seem to be pretty much the same, "Not now, I'm to busy," "Ask your mother" or "Quiet, the t.v. is on."  I sometimes wonder if anybody has the answers...or maybe it's just nobody has time to slow down from their busy schedules to talk to an insignificant, "no good for anything kid" like me.

  I've gotten so many things bottled up inside of me throughout the years, and so many new discoveries I'm finding out about myself and the world around me, but nobody to share with, nobody to discuss what's right and wrong with.  I have nowhere else to go so I guess that makes you the lucky one.

  I feel so happy, sad, glad, mad, joyful and irritated all at the same time, it's really weird.  What should I do when I feel like laughing, crying, running, leaping and screaming all in the same instant?  This is all new to me, Lord.  Is this normal or am I going crazy?  Can't you Please help me find the answers to these and many more things which I have on my mind?

  I was reading one of my mother's books yesterday on how to improve your sex life in six easy bedtime lessons, until she caught me with it and told me that I shouldn't be reading things like that because it's only for "grown ups."  There's just so many things I don't understand.

  I'm Old enough to pay adult prices at the movie shows now, but to young to go to bars and dance halls...My parents say I'm old enough to know right from wrong, but they don't trust me when I go out with my friends.  It's getting to be that I can't keep track of what I'm old enough for and those things that I'm to young to be involved with.  There has got to be an answer, I don't know where, but I thought just maybe you could lead me to it.

  Lord, what am I here for...just to die?  My friend said that life is too short to waste it, so we need to get as much pleasure out of it now when we can because tomorrow might never come.  Is that true?  I can't understand why you would put me here just to watch me grow old and die...don't you care?  There has got to be a better way, won't you show me, Lord?

  I'm so tired of searching.  Alcohol, drugs and disco parties...none of these seem to fill that empty place inside me anymore.  I'm so all alone and nobody seems to care...Won't you come and be with me today, Lord.

  Oh Lord!  Thank You so much for coming into my life.  All those problems don't seem nearly as big as they were before, and even if they are I know I can handle them with you leading the way.  Thank You for just loving me for who I am and I pray that this great friendship we have never ends but goes on throughout eternity!

P.S.  I Love You,

        I Really Do!!!

  

You Need Never Walk Alone

   I  knew several weeks ago we were headed for a rough time, I just didn't understand the full scope of it at the time. Through it all,  I have been able to wake up every morning praising God with the affirmation "Greater is He that is in me, than he that is the world."  I've been to the valley, but I didn't walk alone and therefore can proclaim with the words of the apostle Paul, "We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed"

  I shudder to think what it would be like to walk this road alone.  I thank God that, just as he did many years ago with His original creation, He meets me every morning, in the cool breeze of His Spirit, with outstretched hand  and issues the same invitation, "Come...Walk With Me." He says to me, in the still of the morning "Come, share with me all  that you are and allow me to share all I AM with you."

  We need never walk alone in this life.  God longs to walk with us every step of the way, to share in intimate commune with us.  So, Just as He has done throughout the ages, He stands before us with outstretched arms pulling us ever closer with his mercy and grace.  His hand is open, waiting for us to reach out and grasp it and once we have it is His desire that we never let it go.

You'll Never Walk Alone

I said, ” The path is steep.”
He said, ” I’m at your side.”
I said, “But I am weak.”
He said, “For you I died.”

I said, “Dark valleys come.”
He said, “I’ll guide you through.”
I said, “But I’m not brave.”
He said, “I’ll walk with you.”

I said, “Be light to me,
And strength as I go on.”
He said, “I’m more. I’m love,
You’ll never walk alone.”

Author: Unknown

Under God's Wing

Under God's Wings

As I find my self reflecting on the past couple of weeks I stand in awe at the little things God puts in our path to remind us of His unfailing love.

It might not have been the worst thing I had ever gone through, but if it wasn't it was right there at the top of the list.  This time it was different though, this time, unlike in the past, I didn't hesitate to turn to God and seek his refuge. And as I rested there under His wing, nestled snug against His breast, the warmth of His love and protection overwhelmed me. That alone would have been enough but God wasn't through with me yet, no He still had one more precious gift to share with me. Knowing the coming weeks would be especially trying He would soon bless me with a beautiful sign of reassurance.

Tired and weary from the week before I made my way down the walk on Sunday evening.  Before entering the church I was visiting I glanced up and there, under the cross, was God's gift to me.  She sat stoic and calm without even a flinch as I approached her.  Hidden beneath her wings, barely visible, were her precious babies snug and secure from the outside world.  Tears welled up from within as I pondered the awesome love and protection afforded me by God if I would just rest under His wing.  He hadn't called me to fix the world or to change that which I was incapable of changing. Neither had He called me to live in fear and anguish, He just called me to rest in the shadow of His wing and know that it was there and only there I would find His peace which passes all understanding.

• Psalm 36:7 "How priceless is you unfailing love! Both high and low among men find refuge in the shadow of your wings."
• Psalm 61:4-5 "I long to dwell in your tent forever and take refuge under your wings."
• Psalm 63:7-8 "Because you are my help, I sing in the shadow of your wings. My soul clings to you; your right hand upholds me."
• Psalm 91 4-6 He will cover you with his feathers, and under his wings you will find refuge; his fatefulness will be your shield and rampart. You will not fear the terror of the night, nor the arrow that flies by day; or for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday."
• Psalm 61:1-4 "Hear my cry, O God; Attend to my prayer. From the end of the earth I will cry to You. When my heart is overwhelmed; Lead me to the rock that is higher than I. For You have been a shelter for me. A strong tower from the enemy. I will abide in Your tabernacle forever. I will trust in the shelter of your wings."
• Matthew 23:37-38 "O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing. Look, your house is left to you desolate."