Dear Jesus,

Ugh. Wow. I've had so many emotions this week. There has been a lot of crying (even though it was not necessary haha.) Thanks for keeping me alive and well for yet another week. You're the best.

Please keep my friends safe. I love them so much and I am so glad you have placed them in my life and me in theirs. I ask you to bless them and their families. Please always help in their tough times and help them make the right decision.

Also, help me to make the right decision all the time. Sometimes I let my emotions get the best of me and act of because of it. Since I am a teenage girl, I have lots of different emotions, and they don't just come sporadically, they are present all the time. That gets really annoying.

Oh yeah, some boys have been trying me and my friends at lunch lately. Give me the patience and grace to deal with them. Please bless their lives and lead them to know you further, Father, so that they can live a life of fulfillment which is according to your plan.

Junior year is hard. Continue to help me not to rip my hair out during pre-calculus. I pray for all my teachers and ask you to give them all life has for them. Please give them peace and serenity (and mercy) in crazy chaotic times such as finals week. Help them to teach to their best ability and help fulfill their potential to be fantastic instructors.

Please keep my family healthy and well during this holiday season when we seem to see so much more people than we normally would. Please keep us stable financially and provide whatever you would have for us, Father.

Help America to stay united Jesus. Help us to get through this time of pain and hardships. Please give us a reign of rest, peace, happiness, and growth as a country.

Please keep our military and those serving our country safe throughout their duties. Help them to live another day so that they can go home to their families safe and sound. Bless them, father, for laying down their life to serve our country.

Thank you for all you provide, Jesus. Thank you for dying on the cross so that my sins would be taken care of. That was insanely generous and loving of you. Thank you for giving me a home. Thank you for providing me with a family. Thank you for letting me have an education. Thank you for giving me the best nation in the world to live in.

You truly are the best, Jesus. Thanks for being great and loving and powerful and fantastic. I love you so much!

With all my love and compassion,

Tori

"Have you never heard? Have you never understood? The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of all the earth. He never grows weak or weary. No one can measure the depths of his understanding. He gives power to the weak and strength to the powerless. Even youths will become weak and tired, and young men will fall in exhaustion. But those who trust in the Lord will find new strength.They will soar high on wings like eagles.They will run and not grow weary. They will walk and not faint."

-Isaiah 40:28-31