Hope and Friendship

Part 35

*2 weeks later, 2 day before Spring Break*

"And you! And you! And you! And ychshs-" I washed my face and got out the shower. Today, I felt wonderful, even good enough to sing. Ever since last week, I've been having good days. Mark and Rodrick is doing their own thing, dad and I have been okay, bible study has been good, just...everything. It took strong discipline but I did it. I got dressed and headed out the door. "Today seems nice." I said. There was a gentle breeze in the air along with just the right amount of sunshine. "Nice, just..nice." I got to school and walked in with a random smile. It was a nice smile. Suddenly, a girl from my History class ran up to me. "Hey, Alex, did we have any homework yesterday?" "Umm....I think a worksheet and that's it." "That's right! I better get started, thanks." Oh yeah, I forgot to mention, I'm not exactly cool but I opened up to a few people in my classes. Anyway, I thought I would head to breakfast before bible study. I went in and grabbed some food and went on into the classroom. "Ok, most religious people say you have to do this to get this or vice versa. Well, I'm here to say, I'm not religious.....I'm for Jesus. He's my denomination. Some people set impossible standards for these people. They want you to live a perfect life. Of course God wants you to advance in your christianity, but take a little at a time. I mean, we are going to make mistakes in our life and think for second; if we constantly and constantly pray and repent like, "God please forgive me for this, I'll try harder" or "I feel terrible over not picking up the trash and I repent", then we're saying Jesus didn't completely fullfill his purpose, which was to die for our sins. So if you truly believe in Jesus, then you know you are already forgiven. Still, I'm not saying repentance is not important because it is.........do you guys get what I'm saying?" Everbody nodded. "Okay, any questions or concerns?" A boy raised his hand. "Uh, yes." "My friend, he's like really christian and he always tells me to do this and do that and it kinda makes it hard on me because I wouldn't say I'm a starter christian, but......I'm not sure. Honestly, I'm jealous of other teens I see at church worshipping God by singing and jumping up and down and speaking in tongue." "Hmm, well maybe they do more things outside of church you know what I mean, like bible study with their family every night or they're just at the point where they do that to serve God. Try reading and meditating on Matthew 5 and 6 for a few days. It's on how to live as a christian and how Jesus lived." "Oh okay, thank you." "No problem, let's go into prayer." Wow, today was good. Even I, myself, am trying to advance in my faith and christianity. Only a few times did Mark and I converse about about that." "In Jesus's holy name we pray, Amen. Before you go, Alyssa brought in some brownies so help yourself." I walked over to grab 2 and I left. I felt like I was on top of the world. I even saw Mark and Rodrick and didn't even feel much of anything.