Sometimes, you gotta lead your heart.  You must guide your heart to something that is good for you.  It’s kinda like eating your vegetables. You know they are good for you, but another slice of cake would taste better.  But you eat your veggies, right?!  I hope so.  Having Faith in some higher power or a future story of some kind is VERY important for young people to have.  Life is going to throw curve balls at you (We know that, don’t we?!) Having faith to lean on makes you strong on the inside.  It’s a strength that NO PERSON can take from you.  It’s like what learning is for your brain.  Learning makes you mentally stronger.  Faith makes you spiritually stronger.  Some people use God and his rules to bend you to their will.  But if you KNOW God’s words better than they do… who has the power then?!  You do.  I encourage you to open the Bible just one time this week and look at it.  I’m rather partial to this verse in Zechariah 8:23:

“Thus saith the LORD of hosts; In those days it shall come to pass, that ten men shall take hold out of all languages of the nations, even shall take hold of the skirt of him that is a Jew, saying, We will go with you: for we have heard that God is with you.”

God IS with me. and he is with you too.  Believe in what faith can do, sweet sisters.