Speak Up! RE: Salvation

Someone recently asked me the following question:

"What does being saved mean to you?"

In trying to answer them, I realized that it was more difficult than I would have thought to move from what I believed to trying to effectively explain it to someone else. And it led me to wonder whether others might find answering this question as challenging as I did.

So if you're willing to share what being saved means to you, just click on the Comments link and be sure to leave a name at the end of your post so I'll know who's speaking! (I only ask that you try to refrain from quoting someone else. The challenge is to answer in your own words. - Scripture is excepted from this rule, of course.)