Changing your life by Yoselin

Changing your life by Yoselin - September 2019 Scholarship Essay

As teenagers we face a lot of challenges. Some teens worry too much about how they look in the eyes of their peers, which leads them to do things just to get accepted by a person or group. Everyone things of high school as something big, like that's going to define them in a way. Whether their a jock or cheerleader, but that's where people forget about what actually matters. What you are in high school doesn't define you. Not even half of those people will be part of our lives after high school ends. We spend too much time worrying about what's going to happen next, like to think about right now.
If I had a chance to make an extracurricular activity, I would make a Bible study group. I'm not talking where you just read the Bible. I'm talking about where we study God's word, to learn to follow him with our hearts and where people would come and they would talk to younger people about their life experiences and how they ended up coming to Jesus feet. A safe place where teens come in seeking for help.
When I was 14, my dad left us for someone else. I shut out my humanity in that moment. It hurt so bad. I was in pain everyday and I didn't want to feel that way anymore. I did what I thought was my best choice which was, not to care about anything. My heart took so many punches from my dads abandonment, that after that no matter what happened I didn't feel a thing. I started doing the wrong things for the wrong reasons. I didn't have anyone, I was all alone. In that period of time I started to take my life through the wrong path, I did so many bad decisions, but I can't take them back no more.
My heart was filled with anger and resentment. However when I met about God I learned that I had to forgive my dad for what he had done. It was hard but I finally did it,because God says that if we can't forgive others, he cant forgive us. God's word has the power to heal anyone who listens to it. I know most people don't care about reading the Bible or going to church, but I know that I didn't want to either, at least not until I gave it a chance.
I live my life trying to do what God asks of everyone of us. I'm not perfect, no one is, but the key word is try. God saved my life and I want to share that with other people. If there is something that I can do to help others I will do it. The life that I was taking when my dad left, was taking me into a dead end. My mom has told me multiple times that if I didn’t let God inside, I would've been dead or in jail right now. It's not something pretty to hear but it was true. God changed my life for the best and I want to share God's love to others.