You know I was thinking the other day about the struggles that teenagers face these days and I will admit I fit into these categories just as much as anyone else does, but I realized that during their daily struggles with adolescence that they begin to think that life is just horrible. They think they know what it is like to experience REAL pain, when their problems are only minor. I've dealt with this problem I don't know how many times and I still need to improve on it, but I've narrowed it down to seven things that teenagers do when these problems arise.

-They cry about it

-They agonize to people about it

-They feel lonely

-They become vindictive

-They believe that they are alone in the world

-They run away from their problems

-Mostly they ask the question “why?” especially “why is this always happening to me?”

Notice each of these things: Crying, Agony, Loneliness, Vindictive, Alone, Running, and Why. Each of these things happen to us these days, but how easy it is for us to forget that a certain man endured much more than this just so we could know in our minds and hearts that there is a place waiting for us after this life is over and I want you to look at these seven things closely.

C - Crying

A - Agony

L - Loneliness

V - Vindictive

A - Alone

R - Running

Y - Why

See anything familar?