Why I'm Happy To Be 16...

    When you think of being a teenager, what pops into your head?  Drama, drama, drama?  Yes it is filled with drama...  and I'm not going to say that I don't get dramatic every once in while...  or more often :)  but, being a teenager isn't just about drama.  It is also a time of questions.  We may act like we know it all, but we really only know about 80% of it all.  I'm just kidding :) I would say me personally only knows an extremely small portion of a percent.  Like .000000000000000000001% if that!  Which means that you older, wiser people are welcome to share your wisdom.  :)

    It is also a time of change and worry about the future.  Change as in: joining the youth group, getting your drivers license, finishing high school, getting a job, and being put in positions of responsibility when you feel too incapable to be responsible.  And worry as in:  what the next step is, if we are doing anything right, and whether or not we will ever feel like we know what we are doing. 

    Even with those things, I like being 16! 
         
            Here's why:
1. I am young and have a lot to learn
2. I am free from the responsibilities of being a wife or parent so I can serve and help others
3. I can focus on and spend time with Jesus and grow stronger in Him while I'm young
4. I can have a lot of fun and be silly
   
    And I'm not trying to say that older people's lives are easier than the teenager's.  I know each age group has it's own struggles and hard times.  I'm just writing from my perspective of life right now.
  
    It's so funny, when I was little and looked up to the teenagers in my life, I thought they were so old and smart and had it all together.  Now, I'm 16 and I don't feel any of those traits!  I think I've heard that feeling doesn't go away over the years, so I might as well get used to it!
  
      Oh and speaking of having fun!
   
   

                         My friend and I were in Montana and having fun finding photo props!

 

 

You might not want to trust me with housekeeping :)





   

    I wrote a poem when I was 14 after my brother, a family friend, and I were in an accident and after my other brother broke his back from falling out of a tree stand.  So this is how I feel about my future and worries.

 

Give It To God

 

In what do I put my trust?

Why am I so easily worried?

Couldn't my heart song be-

I will trust and not be afraid?

 

God knows my every weakness,

He hears my soul cry out.

He sees me down here struggling-

He knows what I'm all about.

 

I can't love those unlovable

This is what the devil says.

I have to live in darkness,

And trembling without rest.

 

But God tells me a story,

Of hope and humbleness.

Love to those unlovable,

And trust from faithlessness.

 

There's no way I can do it,

Without God to lead me on.

He tells me not to worry,

He gives me strength when mine is gone.

 

He says "Give it all to Me,

I conquered this on the cross.

Your worries are unnecessary,

I have already paid the cost."