This I know, spiritual strength resides in maintaining your belief in the pressures of everyday life..No compremising in the face of peer pressures,,nor trying to reconcile religious differences..but by compassion and withholding judgemental intolerance. Each has to take their own steps and open their hearts to truth altho it may be leading to Christ it may take a less direct path..thro a different master along the way. How many are turned away from Christianity by intolerance and disdain for the lessons others have already learned,,be patient ..perhaps, your path is less strewn with the stumbling rocks of lifes' hardships! God handles all things..GOd will take care of the confused and stray ones..Pray for each that you pass...every contact you make is a reason to be Christlike in your demeanor..or, Godlike...either is the same..by whatever name...sequoyah/2/28/00