This article is written for rebellious teens and young girls going into that phase. If you are not a rebellious teen, please let your son or daughter read this, or some young person you know at least.
Dear Rebellious Teen,
Now, you might think this is
just another Catholic article your parents want you to read, but this time it’s
different. This is coming from a sixteen year old who understands what you’re
going through, what you’re feeling, and why you’re rebellious. But before you
make stupid teenage decisions that you will regret for the rest of your life,
please hear me out on these few points:
Your parents are actually
right! When they talk about the dumb things they did when they were teenagers
and that they now try to stop you from making the same mistakes, actually
listen to them! Wouldn’t it be amazing to live a good Catholic life while learning
from others’ mistakes without doing them? Unfortunately you don’t know
everything, but you can learn from people’s experiences and mistakes and grow
in wisdom! I bet this is sounding ‘uncool,’ isn’t it? But in the end, do you
want to regret your teenage years living in sin? By all means, enjoy life! But follow the advice of
others, through them you can avoid plenty of mistakes.
Don’t listen to your
rebellious peers! Once you start listening to your parents and following God’s
law, your peers will probably think you’ve lost a few brain cells. But why
listen to your parents? They’re just dragging you down and keeping you from
sanctifying your soul. “What doth it profit a man to gain the whole world but
suffer the loss of his soul?” You have to decide now whether you want to be
everlastingly happy with Our Lord, or be somewhat happy for a few moments then
suffer eternal pain in hell. Our Lord was alone on the Cross to give you an
example. Follow Him and Him alone. People’s opinions and comments about you
don’t matter; they don’t decide your eternity.
If you start sanctifying
your soul at this young age, you have so much time to become a great saint! God
isn’t trying to wake you up right now for no reason. He wants you to
be holy! Maybe it isn’t fun or pleasurable like - as you might think - Justin
Bieber, but what really matters? You’re meant to have a life full of true
happiness, and this is only found when the soul finds God, “A soul is restless
until it rests in Thee.” The Source of happiness is God, and the only way to be
happy is to live for Him, by Him, and in Him.
“It’s too hard...there
are too many rules...” I thought so too, but what’s really hard is having to
constantly deal with our vices, human respect, and being controlled by the
media. That is what I call slavery to the world. But isn’t a person more free
when he gives his life to Christ, abandoning all vices and replacing them with
virtue? Aren’t we free when we set aside all human respect and live for
the goodness of God, and serve our one true Father in heaven? Don’t let the
world tell you otherwise, freedom lies in the straight and narrow path, go find
it.
So please, listen to the
advice given to you, give your life to God, and find true happiness. Although
there might be pleasures in the world, it never lasts. There is a choice
between eternal happiness and eternal pain, which will you choose? The Truth
will set you free, embrace It. God bless you all!
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