2026–2027 THEME: PSALM 23 With Me. Known. Loved. Led.
FALL 2026
WESTERN CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL “LEARNING . . . TO SERVE THE KING” 1
STUDENT PERSPECTIVE
UPCOMING EVENTS
LACK NOTHING
that day comes, both my earthly and heavenly fathers will be standing there Western’s theme passage for this year is Psalm waiting to hug me. 23. “The Lord is my shepherd, I lack nothing …” When I think about the first verse of this Some days I am so blinded by this world passage, it honestly makes me want to laugh. that I almost let Jesus walk past me. It’s I lack nothing. If I were asked to pick an almost impossible to do that at Western. antonym for my life, this would be the verse As I walk down the halls at Western, I can that I would pick. Often I feel so much is see Christ everywhere. Whether it's a lacking in my life. At every special occasion, I friend giving you a smile in the hallway or a have lacked the ability to have my father teacher who forces you to sit in their room there; I’ve lacked the ability to get onto teams and talk to them to make sure you are that I’ve wanted so desperately to be on; I’ve okay, Christ is here in our everyday lives. At lacked the ability to get the grade that I’ve times, we can be so focused on what we wanted. At times, I lack the ability to be a believe we lack that we miss Him. While I good friend and person. The list could go on may not have everything that I’ve ever and on. However, as school began and I wanted, God has given me so much more looked into this verse more, a common phrase than I ever expected: amazing friends, has stuck in my head: “If Christ is all I have, teachers that truly care, experiences that I then I have all I need.” I might not have wouldn’t have been able to find anywhere everything I want, but I have Christ, and that's else, and a mother who supports me even all that matters. when she doesn’t agree with me. None of these things were given to me by the world; Before I started high school, I always thought they were all given to me through Christ. of God as this powerful, jealous God. Christ has been by my side through every Throughout high school, my view of God has failure and success that I’ve had. One of started to change. Now, I see Him as my the biggest lessons I've learned here at loving, caring Father. Having lived most of my Western is that life is not perfect. It will be life without my father, I couldn't picture a hard, but with Christ, nothing is father figure until I truly studied the Old impossible. And as long as you have Christ Testament. After that, I started to see God as on your side, you lack nothing. my Father. I’ve always been one to journal; over the past few years, my journals have Hailey Ammons Class of 2027 turned more into letters. At least three times a week, I write little letters to God, telling Him things that I know He already knows. At the end of each letter, though, I always sign it the same way: "Your daughter." I am the daughter of a powerful King. This life is only temporary; someday all of us will die, and when we do, we will be judged before the King. We won’t be judged based on whether we made the team or got the grade. We won’t be judged based on what we thought was lacking in our lives. Instead, we will be judged based on our character. We’ll be judged based on whether we tried to fill our lives with things of this world or with Christ. I can’t wait for judgment day, because I know that when
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