Outside of many typos and lack of writing prowess within it's writers (none of which I am exempt from in my own writing) I have come to a surprising realization about my current employer (known as Odyssey). Even before I began writing for Odyssey, I was bothered by the "quantity before quality" mindset of it's articles. But more recently, as I followed Odyssey on Twitter and Facebook, I realized the apparent tone of bitterness in "Millennial" (as Odyssey loves to call us) voices. As a member of this generation, I can say that we are a bitter, angry generation, and we love actions and words that tend to stir up trouble and incite anger. Nobody that I know who stirred up such emotions would say their reason for writing something is to make another person angry or stir up trouble, but whatever the intention, the pain and hurt that is so raw in their writing makes the deep-seated anger and bitterness of the writer apparent.

I am going to let non-Millennials and Millennials in on a secret about our generation: we want to make a difference. We crave change. We want to transform our world and society. We see the world around us, the world our parents, our grandparents, the hippies and the baby boomers have helped to shape, and we dislike it.

I believe that many of my generation, whether conservative or liberal, Republican or Democrat, Christian or Atheist, and anywhere in between would agree that there is some issue close to their heart that they want to fix. We have seen and felt the effects of the world that is being handed to us and we aren't ready to accept it. We want to change what has hurt us before it is officially handed over to us. We aren't ready to give up and accept the cynical words of our grandparents, and aren't willing to stand by with our parent's generation. But neither can we understand our grandparent's reaction as the Cold War ramped up, as man after man was sent to Vietnam or as leader after leader failed to live up to their expectations. Most of us don't remember the look on our parent's faces when the World Trade Center fell on September 11, 2001, or as the troops marched into Afghanistan in the beginning of the 21st century.

We cannot understand the emotions and events that affected the millions of people in America and billions of people around the world. Perhaps it is good that we are not blinded by hundreds of past events, but more than likely we will take the Earth into our hands and make the same mistakes again. But as the "Millennials" we have yet to give up hope that we can change something.

Unfortunately, the majority of voices that I hear trying to make a difference in the mist of brokenness are angry and broken themselves. They are crying out with bitter, hurtful words as they strike out in rage to the hurt people on either side. So as a Christian, I will pray for our generation, but as a human, I know I cannot see these angry words each day, again and again, as they are posted on my Facebook and Twitter feeds. So I have unfollowed my own employer on social media.

I wish that I could reach each one of these angry Millennials with the love that I have so unconditionally felt from my Savior and God. The God that keeps me from striving towards my anger and my bitterness is the God that is holding this world tighter than any other. The God that leads me every step of my life, is the God that holds every tear I have ever cried. The God that picks me up every time I have fallen is the God that sees every broken and hurting person on this earth. The God that loves the broken and hurting person, is the God that sent His only Son to save the sinful, hurting, and broken people from a life worth nothing and fill it with hope.

Thank you Odyssey, for giving us a voice, but I have learned that the voice of my generation is first angry, and secondly striving aimlessly to make a difference in a world that we don't fully understand yet. God has shown me the angry voice of my generation through this website and I don't know yet what I need to do to help. But, Odyssey creators, Millennials and Odyssey readers, we have been given a voice, and I pray that we can use our voice in a more thoughtful and loving way that we have as of yet. We only get on life to live on this world. Let's live it to serve and love.