If you could invite us all, by your example, to leave our masks at home and share openly with one another both our joys and our troubles. You could be the generation who leads the church into a new sense of community. Don't lose your ability to accept one another, confess your sins to one another, serve one another, bear one another's burdens, or build one another up. We need you to stay willing to spontaneously respond, whatever the truth may be. In many of our churches we need to have more spontaneity, more praise and expressions of delight in the Lord.
Children never stop asking questions.
Questions that may make adults uncomfortable, frightened, sometimes even angry because they may seem to threaten the pillars of our faith. You're often not content with trite, common answers. You challenge our thinking. You press us into uncomfortable levels of thought about issues we would rather not address. However, this may be the best gift your youthfulness brings to the church.