11-12-08 November is my favorite month. It has my birthday. It has thanksgiving, the one holiday culture hasn't ruined yet. It also has National Novel Writing Month. And today, the twelfth of November, is a significant day for me. When nine years old, I was beginning to wonder what I was doing inside a church. I wondered what I had really meant the last few times I had "accepted" Christ. Luckily, at this age, I heard the best advice I ever heard. A youth pastor was discussing people in the church who were merely there because their parents had gone there. He said, "Make your faith your very own." In retrospect, I had the most valuable privilege