.... my quest, I have learned that religion cannot fill the void in my heart. It takes a person to fill that void and that person is Jesus Christ. Salvation is not found in religion, but in a relationship with Him. Jesus said, "Ï am the way and the truth and the life no one comes to the Father except through me"(John 14:6). Now my life has meaning and purpose. My walk with Christ has been very fulfilling. It has not been only happy events. In fact, I have encountered many difficult trials, and tribulations. But one thing I'm sure about; even when I encounter .....

.... the bands. I eagerly pushed my way to the front of all the other bands, being the obnoxious prick I am, and drew the first card. Unfortunately I drew the second band on stage out of nine. The best position to be in is about fourth or fifth band because that is when the crowd starts getting into the music. Pissed off I haphazardly wandered back to my group to inform them of my greatest mistake. We loaded the equipment into the worlds slowest elevator, and stumbled our way to the backstage lounge. After I had read graffiti covered walls until m .....

.... with Jesus. This decision will follow me for the rest of my life. Every year my youth group delivers food to shut-ins. I have been involved in my youth group for 5 and a half years. Every Thanksgiving we take food to those that cannot get out and come to church. This service helps each person in the youth group to think of others and realize the fact that there are many unfortunate people in the community. During my eleventh grade year, I helped to get the FCA started. We have always had one for people to take pictures with, but we began to have meetings .....

.... went inside and signed up. A week later she got a call form her new coach. He said practice was on Tuesday. She was so happy. Now she knew she could make new friends. That Tuesday she went to practice. It wasn't as she expected. As she walked in, all the girls started whispering. Jenny didn't have any doubt what it was about. All the girls started doing lay-ups and before Jenny knew it, practice was over. Jenny went to practice after practice and soon found that she wasn't that bad. "Okay Pirates," coach announced. "Tomorrow is our first game. .....

.... any thing about who caused the accident. Sometimes she just jumps to the wrong conculsion without thinking about what the situation is. Next, my mother’s attitude also played a major part in the way that she communicates. She is also an assertive person because she is alway confident about things. My mother also makes assumptions of other people without adding all the fact. I also observed that she sometimes uses non- verbal communication skills to substitute for verbal communication skills. For example, when she is talking about something that is larg .....

.... of tennis, I wanted to start playing the actual game. While Suzanne and Erin were diligently practicing their forehand and backhand motions, I took private lessons focusing on my serve. Glancing their way, I would see them laughing and chatting as they walked to the clubhouse for a snack during a break. By expending all my energy on the game, I had hoped that my friends would respect my ability and that it would bring us closer together. Instead, I felt they were ostracizing me, which wasn't truly the case. Even so, Suzanne and Erin had developed a tig .....

.... that was not pleasing to at all. A letter was left on the door of the monkey house which read as follows: Dear Monkeys, You guys have got to start helping out a little bit, because we are tired of helping you do everything. From now on, when we feed you bananas, its your responsibility to pick up your banana peals and throw them in the garbage can. It would be a great help to us. Sincerely, Gus and Barbara. When the two smartest monkeys, Ted and Jill, finally translated this note, they told all of the other monkeys how outrageous it was and the whole .....

.... anarchy thing was in my life for a long while. I do not know why I believed in it at all, I just did. It was probably from the whole rebellion aspect of my life. I started to slack off a little in school and my attitude was changing a lot, for the worse. This got a lot better as time passed. Ahh the present, the me as I am right now. Just recently I have gotten a massive dose of reality. I do not know how, or what from, or anything like that. I woke up one day and it all hit me. I realize now that a lot of stuff in my past was stupid and meaningless so I sto .....