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I’m sixteen.

Well I love Israel because God loves Israel! 🙂 And so many Christians are turning their backs on Israel. There so much hate directed towards you and it isn’t right. I just want to stand with you all against all the hate being thrown at you right now.  🙂

I guess Kentucky is just boring to me because I’ve always lived here. And having always had a longing for travel and never wanting to stay at home, it’s just gotten kinda, commonplace. Kentucky where I live: really hilly, wet in spring, dry and hot in summer, coldish winters with not much snow. . . My favorite season is fall. Though I’m beginning to wish winter lasted longer. LOL But we have lots of pretty flowers and birds here. And, as I’m discovering thanks to my older sister, lots of edible plants.

What kinds of struggles do believers from Christian communities face? Of course I’m okay with sharing. Well for me, it was mostly personal struggles. I wasn’t serious enough about my faith and so my life didn’t really change. I was still bad, got in trouble, didn’t do what I was told. I found myself doing things that I knew I shouldn’t and wondering why everything wasn’t changing.

I struggled because I felt like I’d never be as good a Christian as my mom or grandpa, like I just wasn’t meant to be saved because I wasn’t excited about my faith like they were.

But then, I realized that my faith was important and that it was a personal thing between me and God. It wasn’t like I could get to heaven by tacking my name onto my parents faith. I had to have faith on my own. I had to believe for myself and not have my parents believe for me.

I realized that my life wasn’t just going to magically change just like that. That it would take time as I yielded my thoughts and desires to Christ and grew in him. I had to let him change me instead of just continuing to live for what I wanted.

That’s hard for a kid. Kids tend to want everything fast and easy. But I had to learn that not everything happens fast and easy. Finally, instead of giving up in despair and saying I just wasn’t meant to be a Christian, I started trying with all my heart to live for God, read his word and trust in him to save me instead of trying to be a ‘good enough Christian’. So yeah. That’s that. 🙂

I don’t think it’s the same thing. . . here’s their website. https://www.foi.org/

I hope the link works.