Healing for Your Own Personal Wounds

When I walk through the hallways at school, I can’t help but notice the many young women and men actually that just want to be like everybody else. They wear the same clothes, talk the same way, do the same things – but even though on the outside they are having the time of their lives, on the inside all they feel is pain. A lot of times, I’ve realized that many teenagers in this generation play a façade. Of course, this isn’t towards everybody, but the majority as a whole. I’ve talked one-on-one with many young people, because I’m in the ministry at my church, and would have never guessed the heartache they feel on the inside whether it’s from family, friends or personal struggles. Many young people nowadays are not secure in who they are. At home, their parents may not support them or love them the way they feel they should be raised, so instead go out and find attention from other places. Sadly, for girls, many times they run to a boyfriend for that love. Some are willing to endure verbal and physical abuse because they believe that nobody else will accept them or “love” them. Even with guys, sometimes the views their friends have on treating women is harsh – although they don’t really believe the same things, they still follow along, so they can “fit in.” It doesn’t have to be dealing with people, but substances as well. I have ministered to teenagers who smoked or drank, not because they wanted to, but because they felt it was their only escape from their real world of pain and suffering. Even physically harming their bodies was a means to release their burdens. You have influence. EVERYBODY has influence – and you have the choice of using your influence to benefit others or drag them down with you. If you are struggling with drugs and your siblings look up to you, perhaps, MAYBE they may follow in your footsteps. If you are hurting because your parents weren’t there for you on that one big game or performance, and you looked out in the audience and they weren’t there, holding on to your anger isn’t helping, rather it just eats you up on the inside. More young people need to be the influence, the one friend others can turn to who is optimistic, who is secure, who’s wounds have been healed. But in order for you to seek that help you need to find it within yourself to come to terms with who you are, and what is hurting you, and that isn’t always easy. But once you let go of that weight upon your shoulders, those around you will witness the change, and desire to follow too.  And I am not posting this to be hypocritical, or to make you wonder "well, she's just all talk" but because I've been there myself.  I faced my battles, and have won, and now I hope that more young people stand up and become the positive influences they've been called to be.

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