TO THE EDITOR:
Life today has different meanings to all sorts of different people, but the main question that mainly all people have in mind is, what is life, really?
In today's society, most people believe life is simply a time period to gain money, looks, popularity or fame. Life really is so much more. Most people take it for granted the life they were given, going as they please and doing as they wish with little to no regard of what may lie ahead.
For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction as discovered by scientist Isaac Newton. The same goes for life choices. The choices we make have an effect on the future. Nothing goes into a void.
Life lasts forever. When we die, we are still alive. Every human being's soul never dies. What matters now is how we choose to spend our life.
There truly is so much pain in the world with drugs, violence, child abuse, bullying, murder, theft, the violation of people's rights, people becoming confused of who they are, and so many people facing depression and committing suicide. It's pitiful and horrible what the United States of America, as a whole, has become. However, there is always hope.
If people would focus on what really matters and put God back in our country and schools, then how much less sorrow would we honestly face? On occasions of devastation in the U.S., such as Sept. 11, 2001, where did people turn? Where did they find peace?
They found it in God where churches were filled and people found exactly what they were looking for, hope.
Did somehow in America we lose our roots? Our foundation? Without a foundation, a house cannot stand. Without a foundation, there will be a house divided.
Why would we change our country for people who do not understand where God is in our history? It physically hurt no one to see a Bible in a courthouse and it is our heritage, our roots, our foundation.
No one was forced to believe. Why should we be forced to take that away? Because, in the long run, we have one life and it counts once. Forever means more than today.
Grace Itira Young, 15
Camp Overton Road
Rock Island