rebelling against low expectations
When I was around eleven or twelve years old, I had an idea. I’d heard what people said about teenagers–and they weren’t good things. I couldn’t believe teenagers–even so-called Christian teenagers–would act the way people said they did. But then I started to see it for myself. I was shocked and horrified. And so I had this idea, this ideal promise that I made...
If you’re anything like me—or, in fact, like most humans alive—you’re a questioner. You see something new, something that doesn’t jive with the images you’ve carefully collected in your mind, and you latch onto it. This desire to know and understand grabs a hold of you and you question this new thing, pick it apart, until you have it satisfactorily figured out and can add it to your worldview...
rebelling against low expectations
