Have you noticed the confusion, which seems to extend in our world today? People seem to be going in all     1    (difference) directions. Many have no desire     2    (pursue). There’s no direction in their lives. There’s no reason for their work. They appear to be in     3     hurry, but are rushing with what purpose?

If you don’t live with a purpose, you live by accident. You could end up     4    (wander) from side to side down the pathway of life, never knowing the award that could be yours.

Take time to think     5    (deep). Listen to your inner self. Be patient and understand your unique gifts and know the reason     6     you are here. There are many     7    (opportunity) along the way to serve your purposes.

Your highest purpose should be giving and serving others. You don’t need to expect anything     8     return. You will truly know the blessing of life when you can give, desiring nothing but the     9    (satisfy) of a job well done.

Be true to yourself. Don’t confuse yourself by living for nothingness on Sunday morning     10     living for self for the rest of the week. Don’t confuse yourself by trying to be someone you’re not. Don’t confuse yourself by following the wrong people. Your living isn’t to be compromised. God created you for a purpose.

With TV, movies, computers, and videos games becoming more and more popular, it has become much     1     (easy) for teens to be home by themselves rather than going out with friends. Teens used to hang out at the mall or drive around the town; now they just sit at home. Getting teens into a sport     2     (give) them an opportunity to go out and socialize.     3     they may not find a new best friend, they will learn how to interact and work as a team, something that they’ll find useful later in life.

More and more teens are becoming overweight. When your children reach their youth, part of good parenting will provide them     4     the direction and encouragement and continue to help them develop a healthy style of living.

Trees provide cool shade and clean air for us. But would you ever write a letter to a tree? Officials in Melbourne, Australia have discovered that for many, the answer is a loud yes. When they carried out a program     1     assigned email addresses to trees in order to help identify damage and issues, they discovered that citizens     2     (prefer) to write them love letters instead.

The city is calling it     3     unexpected but positive result of their attempt     4     (help) citizens track tree damage. On their urban forest data site, Melbourne assigned ID numbers and email addresses to each of the city’s trees. It would be     5     (easy) to catch and recover     6     (damage) trees than before. Then the emails began to arrive. Instead of damage reports, people began to write fan mails to trees. The writers praised their     7     (look) and inner beauty. Some told tales of     8     they had helped them survive severe weather. Some trees even wrote back.

The effort is part of a larger plan. That is to protect Melbourne’s 70,000 city-owned trees from drought and     9     (reduce). But it turns out that Melbournians have always been tree enthusiasts. The government notes that in the 1880s, citizens wrote begging for     10     (plant) trees to absorb bad gasses from a nearby factory.