This Is My Creed

     Alright so this has been an assignment for a while and I haven't been putting it off this time. This time the assignment seemed to have hit home with me. Some background, this is a part of the This I Believe assignment. We were asked to free write about our beliefs, then to comprise a credo, and then write a 3-5 page narrative about our beliefs and our credo. I have been  putting a lot of thought into this credo. For as long as I can remember the only thing that I have really run my life by (if you can say that I ran it) was the fact that things happen and you just have to roll with it. I can attest through personal experience that this is not the way to live life. My father has been hounding me for a few months now to figure out what I want in life and how I really want to live my life. This has been something rather difficult for me to think about. I have written three different creeds over the course of the week and only one really stood out to me. It was one that I had to write immediately when I began thinking and planning it out in my head. I will post the other two later as extras, however this will be turned in. This has been sent to several different close friends to undergo an editing so to say. The people that received this are those that have had a significant impact on my life for the better, I can tell you that had I met some of them my life may not have been this long. Without further adieu, I give you my credo.


     I am a fighter, tried and true. I approach every challenge with determination and strength. I will push my mind and body to the limits and break those limits. The world has tested me. I have faltered but never failed. I remain ready and willing to lay down my life in defense of the innocent. It is not what I do within my life that matters, rather what I do for others. I am a defender. I am a disciple. I am a leader. I have been challenged and I have overcome. I have never accepted defeat nor will I ever. My strength is not my own. My strength is a gift. My God is my strength. My God tests my faith and provides what I cannot. Though I have witnessed corruption, death, dishonor, and injustice I must prevail. I must cage the demons of my past and push forward with fervor for great change in my future. I must become clean, free from my pride. Free from the world. I will become free. I will learn to love more fully and openly. I will become the great man that I am meant to be. For; I am a fighter and I am blessed with abundance from God who will never test me past what I can and will overcome. 

~David M. Conrad


     Feel free to comment, it seems to still be a bit of a work in progress but for the sake of the assignment that it was a part of I had to post this in a semi-timely manner. Thank you again for taking the time to read and probably learn too much about me. I'll try to be here all week.