I am not ashamed

Hey everyone! I just posted something yesterday but I have another great story to tell you.

So I have a cross necklace that one of my really good friend's moms gave me when I got confirmed. I wear it all the time. So about a year ago, my cousins came to visit us. One is a guy in 11th grade and the other is a girl who is a senior in college. (They aren't religious). So they had been with us a few days when the girl noticed my necklace. She said, "Kelly, I wouldn't wear that in public if I were you, and especially not to school." I was shocked she would say something like that to me and I asked why. She said no guy at school would ever want to go out with me or even talk to me if they saw I was a "good Christian girl". Thinking that she knew best, I took it off. I strayed from God and the Bible and everything good. I tried so hard at school to fit in and do things that I wouldn't normally do.
I wasn't known as anything special and nothing different happened than it did when I was wearing the necklace, but I did feel lonlier inside and knew that I strayed from God.
"What was I thinking??" I asked myself later. "My school life is the same but I lost the one thing that's constant in my life!" So then I decided that I was not ashamed to let people know what I believed and I would wear the necklace all the time. "If guys don't talk to me because they see the necklace, then I really don't want to become close with them, because I don't need them or their approval at all!" I thought. I went back to the Bible and began to pray again. And this past week at Sky Ranch really just drove that home for me. DON'T BE ASHAMED. My cousin doesn't know God at all, and I knew that but I still believed her, and she was pulling me down. I don't want to be like her with her religious views, because guys on this earth are temporary while He is forever.

Kelly