This document discusses providing young people with a "Faith Matrix" to help guide their choices and find meaning and purpose. It notes some of the challenges facing youth today like violence, drugs, and poverty. However, Pope John Paul II sees today's young people as "sentinels of a new hope". The document argues that whether one becomes a "messenger of destruction" or of "hope" depends on how one chooses to see the world and what choices they make. It promotes choosing goodness and life over evil and death by embracing a life of faith.