Accepting the Fact of Growing Up

I mean can you believe we'll already be driving soon? (fellow sophomores, that is.) It's scary to think that we are already done with Driver's Ed and halfway through the year. Next thing we'll be driving cute little cars to school junior year. I'm scared, aren't you? Of reality. Of growing up, of change. God tells us not to worry, and to pray to Him and let it all in His hands. Do all of us do that? No, in reality we try to and we try and pray, but when we pray, most of us are just asking for His guidance, not even that! We're just asking for things that we want. We all do it. I was reading and came across one of Jesus' disciples who was continually just asking God for things in his life. God got to the point where He said to him, "stop praying." This dawned on me, stop praying? Then I thought, we have to thank Him sometimes too. One of the things I lack is being thankful for what I have. I want to realize that I won't have what I have for long, and what I do have is something speacial. So I, scratch that, WE need to live it up. (and can't you "live it up" without drugs, sex and alcohol? I know I can, and so can you) Be thankful for what you have. Thank God, thank your parents. And watch yourself grow up, in slow, patient time. Never rush a thing. Live like you're going to die tomorrow, love like it's your last chance, and laugh with your middle school best friend again. Rememer the good times, and look forward to new ones. Be a teenager forever, never grow up.