The Power of Solitude and a Silent Retreat   It's hard to fully put in words what God did in my heart this past week. It happened in nature and solitude. A retreat in a lake cabin in Minnesota where ...

Girl, 17  I feel like I've been alive for so long, but somehow I've only just started living. A few years ago I was a very different person to who I am today; dark,...

I had a baby, at 13  Hey, I would like to share a part of my life, that I feel could help the lives of others. When I was 13 years old I met "the love of my life" (yeah right)...

My Journey to God... He pulled me out of despair & brought me into a life of Joy!  Life, Before and After a miracle...
Alot of people, especially young people, ask me why i choose to live for God, it confuses them, and my answer in ...

Struggled With Masturbation  I live in a house with Christian parents who love me and care for me. I accepted Jesus Christ into my heart when I was 4 years old on the way home from ...

GOD saved me from going to prision.. being innocent.  Hi, I am here to share my testimony of how GOD saved me and delivered me from the hands of my enemies. That includes my ex-husband. After proposing the ...

Realized i was wrong . . . . . .  Hi, i am a girl who became a christian when i was 6, but never really understood that you have to have a relationship with Christ. I thought that when ...

I just knew I wouldnt get hurt.  I never understood the importance of waiting until after i had sex. i was no where near ready. i had my first really serious relationship when i was 15....

The Prodigal's Brother  Most Children who have grown up in the church have heard of the story the Prodigal Son. When the Prodigal son asks his father for his inheritance, and ...

A Dance With Our King  I’m overcome with Praise today because it has been almost 3 years that I have been dancing with our Father. GOD, I LOVE YOU SO MUCH!

For most of my ...

The Hunger Inside of Me  Well I had my first boyfriend when I was 14; he was 17 at the time. We dated for a few weeks and I liked him SO much. When we broke up I was extremely ...

what i thought was "Life"  my mother got pregnant with me when she was 16... i'm 15 now. as i grew up i faced death.. my mom and dad fought and drunk all they time. the was both ...

Freedom  Where I come from, the south, mostly everyone believes in Jesus, but when my mom got a job in California, I found it hard to beleive that anyone I talked ...

Sharing the Word  For the past couple months, I told myself that I would share God's word at school. A day would go by and then another day would go and I still wouldn't ...

Run With Endurance the Race Set Before You  Never say never, right? Well, at one time I said I would never run a marathon. I felt like jogging a couple miles here and there was sufficient for me ...

changed. life. forever.  well, i lived in Floida for about ten years. My grandmother was then diagnosed with breast cancer. Me, my sister, brother and mom all moved in with her ...

Kaiden's Journey  I had never thought of myself as the one to get pregnant as a teenager. The summer of 2009 I was preparing for my first deployment to Afghanistan. I would ...

Am i Alive?  I could write a whole story and let you know about me... but you still won't. Life is unexplainable. When you're living in sin, you're dead cuz you're ...

Anorexic Nightmare  There are always those few words that everyone will remember for years to come. It could be a compliment, or a quote, maybe even a prayer. For me it was ...

LEAP OF FAITH  God has brought me a long way since 10/04. MY SON WAS ALMOST KILLED BY A GROUP OF TEENS THAT HUMANLY BIT HIS BODY UP,BROKE ALOT OF HIS BONES,CRUSHED HIS ...

God working through Prayer  I am thirteen years old, so naturally people say that my life is merely beginning. But I've found that through going through school, especially junior ...

Make a Wish?  (A reflection from God by Kim Bookmyer 2.7.10)

Do you remember those days as a young girl wishing on the first star you’d see at night or making a ...

Cancer with Christ.  Hi, My name is Karla.
I guess you could say that I’m not your average teenage girl. I do a lot of normal things that most girls do. I’m a competitive ...

A Wallflower's Testimony  My name is Tina. I'm 18, almost 19 now, and a senior in high school. For the longest time, I would love to hear people's amazing testimonies about how ...

Life Gone Wrong  I've lived a very good life; lived all over the world and I was okay with that. I liked moving around alot. Then one day my family moved to Alabama and ...

Rising Above  “For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, of love, and of self-discipline.” (2 Tim. 1:7, NIV)

I interpret this as God’...

Obsession. takes. over.  When I was younger, I was so obsessed with what people thought of me that I would spend all my money on makeup and starve myself. Later in life I was diagnosed ...

No Tears. No Cry.  My name is Bee. Well, actually it's Briony but I don't really like my name.

Well, if I'm going to tell you my story, get ready to not feel exactly peaceful ...

Wasn't ready  i once had this boyfriend and we were supposed to have sex. we walked to the spot with 2 of my home girls and 1 of his boys, but i got scared and didn'...

Tears and Triumphs  For three years I've been suicidal. since I was 14, all I remember is wanting to die and hurting so bad I could barely stand it. When I was 15 I started ...

SELF ESTEEM  Hi my name is Leslie Anne and I have low self esteem.. very low. Here's why:

1. My name is Leslie Anne, you know as a kid you would probably make fun ...

Just Have Some Faith  In Matthew 17:20-21, it talks about that if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can move mountains. For 5 years, my father has struggled with ...

whole heart  growing up i went to church but i never paid attention to the sermons. i knew about God but i didnt believe. my grandma was so in love with God & she made ...

Life is Beautiful....  Hey yall! My name is Kaylee, and I just signed up to be able to talk to you guys about the serious issues you're facing. God was calling me to do something ...

Beauty starts on the inside, than the outside...  This first part is an entry from my journal.

Monday, October 26, 2009
It had been a week now, but she still looked back to that moment in sheer horror....

The Lost Remote and Answered Prayer  we needed to return a heater we had recently bought, but there was one problem-the remote was lost! so, all of us "Kids" had to find it,(because,of course ...

Beauty captures attention. Personality captures the heart.  I have walked in every shoe there is. I have taken the wrong paths, the right. I find God. I move to fast and I lose him. But you, reader, I have been ...

Realization  I've been battling depression since I was in the seventh grade. At first, it was just me separating myself from the world and those in it but it soon transformed ...

God is always there  I never really thought that I had a “testimony”, until I actually sat down and looked back at the events of my life and saw Gods hand in all of it.
I ...

This is my story.  This is my story.

When I was just a young girl in second grade, a boy I was good friends with told me I was fat.

It totally crushed me.

I remember ...

The devil is a Liar  I just have to spread my testimony, to tell the world just how good God is. Two months ago I made an appointment to see an Ear, Nose, and Throat (ENT) Specialist ...

My Story...  (Note: I've never had to tell this to anyone before)

I grew up in church, and always thought of myself as "the good kid". But that wasn't always the ...

I've seen joy and I've seen pain but through it all God proved faithful  As far as I'm concerned now, my life is an open book so it can be a testimony for God's glory. I'm not afraid of sharing my past anymore with anybody because ...

My testimony Hallalujah!  Well all the way up to about 14 years of age I was in church I believed in God but I wouldn't exacly say I had a relationship with the him,

But anyways ...

My Romance  Growing up, I always had this fantasy that some incredibly talented and good looking artist would stand on a stage, and out of thousands of girls standing ...

Beauty from Pain (for all you beautiful ladies!)  I titled this beauty from pain, because over the course of my years, God has shown me such love and grace and He has brought beauty in my life through ...

to find myself  hi i'm jennifer a normal 13 year old that has alot of struggles in life. mostly about friendship i feel like people don't want to talk to me and i hate ...

never thought this would happen  ok so where do i start off.......... well in janurary of last year me and my family(my brother, me, my mom, and my step-dad) where going through some rough ...

Because he lives..I can face tomorrow  Wow..you are so confident, you are always full of energy and zeal, I wish I was like you..Be careful what you wish for, looks can be deceiving was how ...

letting go  ok, so lately God has been telling me to get rid of something, but i just cant..its nothing bad, but just something thats holding me back..what is it?its ...

The old has gone the new has come....  Once in my life, it dwelled in my mind my true identity. Yes, im a girl but i used to wear lose shirts,lose pants, shorts and even to wear a ...

The Root of the Broken Heart  “He heals the broken hearted and binds up their wounds.” (Psalm 147:3)
“He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted.” (Isaiah 61:1)

So wow. I was ...

its's not much, but its me  i dont have that story that your preacher always tells you. about the girl who was addicted to sex, or drugs, or alcohol and found Jesus and turned her ...

sad  i am alice and i am 12. i have an average life, i go to school, have friends, and play sports. i guess that my life could pretty much rock. the only problem ...

A Tiny Wish - My TeenMag Opportunity  I was praying to God at Church one Sunday last year. I was saying my thanks, and telling him about events in my life, and one of them was an audition ...

No one felt like I did  This is a story about a little girl who was teased continually at school.

I have blonde hair and blue eyes, average height and love sport.

I can ...

Was "Devil's Little Girl", Now...  -Please read! I don't talk much and i know it's a long story, yet i'm showing you the truth!

Drugs, cussing, sex, rebellion, and a whole lot more, was ...

Slowly Becoming Free from Cutting  I have been struggling with cutting myself for a couple years now. The need for relief started when I was about 12 or 13 and my mom had told me to stop ...

wow these people dont really know me  kneeling on the side of my bed,body filled with pain,heart clenched in pain, soul ringing on fire. letting my mind wonder as i come accross some things....

Two Big Things God has Done in My Life  Hi there! I'm Hannah and I wanted to share my story with all of you out there!

When I was little I was curios as a new puppy. I liked discovering and ...

GOD IS POWERFUL  My story is powerful and many teens have been changed by what God has done through it.

I was dating a good looking boy all through high school. He ...

CAR CRASHING  I LIVE IN OHIO AND THE WEATHER IS NOT SO GOOD RIGHT NOW!!! AND TODAY MY MOM AND I WERE DRIVING TO GO CHRISTMAS SHOPPING AND SOMEONE RAN IN FRONT OF US ...

God's Will.....  So of course i am a teen that grew up
in a small town where partying and hooking up
were the two things to do. So right when i got
into the 9th grade ...

The Life of a Wannabe  I am an 8th grader and I am just beginning to find myself. I live in a world where fashion and popularity are everything!!! I am popular but I'm one of ...

Life  I am 16 years old and I am adopted and everyone thinks I am going to have a baby but I do have great adoptive parents, I still can't help but think about ...

Love, oh Love…  What is love???

I loved someone and I thought that he loved me too…I met him on a rainy day, but he just brought sunshine in to my life, but now he'...

One guys story  Well I still didn’t become a Christian until 1976 sitting in jail in Pensacola. I was in the Navy and screwed that up to. I constantly got in trouble ...

A Guy's Perspective  First, let me say that I'm a 29-year-old guy. Normally, I wouldn't share on a site like this, since it seems geared toward teenage girls, and I respect ...

My Modeling Story  I struggled with Faith since I was really little. I only "believed" in Christ because my parents were very into church. I became bored and when I was eleven ...

His Bride  My story is probably a common one. I have always been a big girl. In primary school (I guess elementary school) I was the tallest girl in the class. In ...

Dad, where were you? God loves me more than any guy can  I believe that dads have a very important role in their teenager's life. Unfortunately I never had that father.

I have a father and actually he is ...

Princess Kandace  It all started when i was in elementary school. People made fun of my forehead and at first i didn't think it was big but then i started believing it since ...

"God are you there?"  My life is so confusing right now. My family and I just moved to PA, and we are already moving again. This isn't the first time something like this has ...

You Really Are Beautiful!  Sometimes when I feel like I'm not very pretty, overweight, or not good enough, I remember that God made us ALL beautiful,(never has he made anything ugly)...

I Was Adopted  At the age of five, I had to make a very hard decision. I was scared, afraid, and I didn't know what to do. I knew there was a God in Heaven who loved ...

I Have the “Real Scoop” on Beauty  I grew up in a church that focused on dos and don’ts.

Spiritual growth was measured by external measures, such as, certain clothing restrictions, avoidance ...

God works in all ways  Before I fully committed to Christ, I would've lied just talking about this, with no feeling at all.
There are days when i don't like myself. I feel ...

I was fat...  Anorexia ruined my life, but now i am past my stuggles, thank you God.

down the wrong path...  Hello Girls!
My name is Kellan Morris, & i'm 14 years old.
It took me a while to realize I even had a testimony.
....... Growing up, I always went ...

My Relationship with God  I have developed a relationship with God quite recently. After having my mother become disabled after a routing operation i think that God made contact ...

iMpErf3ctiOn..  Im 18 years old, and i have struggled with low self esteem, which led me down hill. I always compared myself to other girls, and always wanting to be ...

I THINK I OWE MY SANITY TO GOD!!!!  When i was 15 my parents went through a messy divorce,i couldn't handle it cause i didnt see it coming at all,i went off the rails terribly and became ...

Its never an end.. Just the beginning  I am an 18 year old and about to start College. Of course its summer time, and the devil is always at work. It was a thursday morning and i was getting ...

Battles(=  God has been working and fighting my battles everyday. Always. But for about a month now the devil has been tearing me down. "A battle of the mind" is ...

God Is My Friend!!!  At the tender age of 14, I came into a relationship with Jesus Christ. Although I came from a traditional Baptist background and basically grew up in ...

I'm recovering  I found out 11 months ago that my husband was having an affair. It was very devastating because this was the second time. I feel like I'm trying to come ...

My haunting journey from fashion to faith  When I was a little girl, people used to always stop my mother in the street and tell her I should become a model. Tall and lean, long blonde ...

The Real God  I grew up in going to Sunday school, VBS, and several different church camps, but nothing ever pointed to a personal Jesus. I knew all the stories and ...