To prepare for life, is to begin to LIVE

I’m TRYING to write a personal statement, but I just CANT. What am I supposed to say about myself to impress people? How do I summarize myself in less than 500 words? I thought I’d start out just writing everything about me … everything that comes to mind. I find myself ranting on and on about being a Christian … about loving God. It’s such a big part of me that I cant leave it out of my personal statement, but what if … people reading it just wont understand my love for someone UNSEEN practically INVISIBLE, someone who to many are NONEXISTENT. It’s just so difficult, but I feel like without God, my personal statement would no longer be mine…

Here’s part of the jumble that I wrote about myself … not something you put in a personal statement eh?

“My friends may also describe me as religious. Religious? They may see me as religious because I read the Bible and I go to church meetings and I pray with a friend every morning. Well, in my eyes, I’m not being religious. The definition of religious is to follow strict rules and codes that a religion imposes. That’s not what I do. I read the Bible, I pray and I go to church because of one reason and one reason only … that reason is that I love God. simple. Because I love God, I want to get to know Him more. To know a person, one can read about him, hear about him from other people or best yet, talk to him. That’s all I’m doing. I’m trying to get to know my God and the more I spend time with others who love Him, the more I read about Him and the more I talk to Him, the more subjective He becomes. Others may see me as religious, but I see myself as just a girl who is so captivated by this person that I spend my time getting to know Him by talking to Him.”

-vyl lyn-