It is healthy to ocassionally search your heart for your values. Do not take pride or put your (inherent) identity in anything but Christ. In school: Dont conform to social pressure. Your "highest" hopes should not be in academics, or slacking (its okay if its just a bit, for relaxing). If you do, you will be weighed down by them. In Christ, we find rest- a rest which really satisfies. The 3rd quarter (in JYM): No other passion. "For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain"

Dont become so drenched in community that you see and/or think and/or do things no differently from them. Be conscious of God. "Blessed are those who do not walk in step with the wicked or stand in the way that sinners take or sit in the company of mockers, but who delight in the law of the LORD and meditate on his law day and night." Pslam 1: 1-2

And remember that God is always there for us. Pslam 139: 6-10 (Ryan's sermon)

Wait on God and get renewed strength. Isaiah 40:31

I am tell myself this.

Kenneth