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!!!