God Bless Us

Helpful Words of Advice #1

I frankly am getting tired of people thinking they are the best of anyone. I have heard people saying they are perfect and have told them that they can’t be perfect to any one person! Now that’s not entirely true, and I may be a new teen, but I understand that God made us perfect only in his eyes! We are beyond normal to him, we are perfect, just like him! I believe I read somewhere that everyone is damaged one way or another, but it is the people who think they are the greatest that are the most damaged. If you agree, than you know you are damaged in some way… and it’s not bad, either. But if you don’t, ponder on it. You’ll hopefully figure it out and get the right answer!

~Tristan

Helpful Words Of Advice #2

You know the saying, “When life gives you lemons, you make lemonade?” Well, there are time in our life where we can’t do that. Whether it be death, or abandonment, or congress, (tehe) or anything else, life isn’t just a game. Its a fight. A fight for survival. I always imagined life to be like a mountain we are climbing. When those tough times come around, we are falling. But it is up to us to decide if we are gonna keep falling, or grab a ledge and get back to climbing. I heard from Youth Group last Wednesday that we are in a land controlled by Satan. It is up to us to choose whether we fall to him or repel him in Gods name. So, when life gives you lemons, dont make lemonade, give the lemons away!

~Tristan

Helpful Words Of Advice #3

When something happens, don’t let it get in your way of acheiving your goal! IT may have been too simple, but what you truly want isn’t gonna be easy to get.

~Tristan

Helpful Words Of Advice #4

As simple as it sounds, a smile can go farther than anything. I read a poem in ‘Chicken Soup For The Teenage Soul’ and thought, Hey. Pretty Sweet! A smile can go to saving someone’s life to giving someone a warm feeling, to whatever it may seem. Give a guy on the street a smile or someone at the store one, or both will be better! Because, like most things, there will be a chain reaction!

~Tristan

Helpful Words Of Advice #5

Here is something my friend Jen wrote in a story of hers, “To fear is not to be, to be is not to fear.” It is amazing. It means that if you fear anything, you can’t accomplish anything. It is simple, but well played.

~Tristan

Helpful Words Of Advice #6

Another bit of info is this, “You never lose by loving, you always lose by holding back.” It means that if you love someone, you have to tell them. Dont let the rest get to you. Trust me, the rest WILL surprise you!

~Tristan

Helpful Words Of Advice #7

When someone deceives you, you let your guard down! No one should be deceived! Keep your gaurd up, cause life still has surprises for you!

~Tristan

Helpful Words Of Advice #8

 Always think of the peoples past to learn of their future? Wrong! Think of what they’ve done? Wrong! Think of how many times they went to jail? Wrong! Think of how many sin’s they have intentionally commited? Wrong! Everyone deserves a second chance in life, and as well as God does, so shall you!

~Tristan

Helpful Words Of Advice #9

There is a saying, “there are always 2 roads. One of them is easy, and its only reward is that it is easy!” This means that there will always be those 2 roads in any decision, but if you take the easy one, you will only get the reward of it being easy!

~Tristan

Helpful Words Of Advice #10

Fear. What comes to your mind when someone says fear? Scared? Afraid? How about seperation? Fear seperates people from eachother by what people hear! Let yourself get the info from the source!

~Tristan

Helpful Words Of Advice #11

Seperation is commonly heard as 2 things apart for a reason. But how about the hidden things that seperate people? Jen and I came up with an entire list of seperations. Lying, Rumors, Death, Hatred, Greed, Mental Destruction, Decievement, etc., etc., etc. Try to dodge these things! It may be hard, but surprising as the result will be!

~Tristan

Helpful Words Of Advice #12

This one will be short but very meaningful, “If you do something for the best, the results are for the best.” Say that you had to choose between chocolate and a bottle of flavored water you adore, which is always out-of-stock. (This is on the REALLY minature scale) You are hungry, but you love the water. You get the chocolate, you lost the chance to get a bottle of the water, and lets face it…when does chocolate fill you up? Get the water, and you got to try it again. You always have a chance to get chocolate. See ya!

~Tristan

Helpful Words of Advice #13

Why’d the chicken cross the road? A classic joke. To get to the other side? To get some food? How about because God wanted it to? God makes us do unusual things, like a chicken crossing the road. I keep on hearing people do things for the fact of looking good or being brave, and that is called being self-centered. Trying to prove a point cang et you killed! That is obvious. But it is different if God told you to do it. If God told you to walk off a bridge (hopefully he wont) maybe it is to experience something no one else could ever dream! SO why did the chicken cross the road? Answer that with the real response shown today.

~Tristan

Helpful Words Of Advice #14

‘Dont judge a book by its cover.’ An ancient phrase that has been around as long as books have. It means to not judge a person by how they look. But people do that anyway. Why? And the weirdest thing about that is how they have friends. How do they have friends if they judge a book by its cover? That most likely means that they choose who is cool, probably based on how the rumors are heard. But everyone has a story, you just got to listen. Everyone is brothers and sisters in God, so stop acting like we are opposites based on our differences. (More of that will be in Helpful Words Of Advice #15) If you take at least 2 minutes at the very least, you’ll have an amazing experience on the person. If they walk away or leave you alone, follow them. It makes them realize you’re not giving up. (More on that will be in Helpful Words Of Advice #16) Also, a warm smile can leave a person wanting to talk to you. Try that! Now, nothing is holding you back from saying they’re wierd, but if you learn more about them, that won’t be possible. So don’t judge a book by its cover, but by what you have read.

~Tristan

Helpful Words Of Advice #15

It is true that God may or may not have created us by heart, but by soul, he rules. So, since we were created by God in soul, we are siblings in Father, like it or not. So, all that really means is that, like stated in Helpful Words Of Advice #14, we shouldn’t judge eachother so quickly, especially is we don’t know any, or much, of the person. We could have an amazing girl from a state on the other side of the USA come in and everyone say she is an outcast from being on the opposite side of the country, to the point they wish they were gone or dead. Then, she will plan suicide or something worst the following day based on all the negativity. Then, the next day, she is in a deeply depressed state, and have another person come up to her. She would expect negativity, but they give her positivity. They could say something as simple as a ‘Hello. You look great today’ or ‘Hello. Lovely day, isn’t it?’, or a full on asking of ‘Hey. You seemed depressed. Want to talk about it? I won’t be negative.’ Then she will explain and they will become friends. So that person, boy or girl, just saved a life, and might not even know it. So try to know that we are all siblings in God. Know this, and you will be accepted by at least one person. I was like this girl in the example until I met Cheyenne, so I guess you could say I owe her my life. But, truth be told, we need our brothers and sisters. You CANNOT, I repeat, CANNOT think differently about this. Everyone is in pain. Not just you! So go to your siblings, at least one will truly understand eventually.

~Tristan

Helpful Words Of Advice #16

It is an amazing fact that those who do not give up succeed, but what about those who try to push that from you? It is still possible to achieve your goal while releasing the negativity from your peers. If you ask me, it is difficult to put someone down…who never gives up! I have been withstanding the negativity of my fellow classmates since the 3rd grade, and I am now in 8th. I am that living example that if you never give up, everyone trying to do so fails. I hope that you don’t get the wrong idea that I am off-tasking with the topic of God, because, as discussed in Helpful Words Of Advice #15, we are his children, and do fathers really want to see one of their own give up so easily? We all know the answer is NO WAY! I am all of your’s brothers who are reading this, and I don’t want you give up when I told you that I have negated that upon what others said of my ideas. I don’t listen to them, and God tells me it is time, and I do what they say I cannot do. You can do it. If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. You can’t get it right in one try, but God didn’t create the world the first time. There is Mercury and Venus first. When you succeed, tell those peers the amount you failed and say that you didn’t fail, you found that many times on how not to do it. (Yes, that is from Albert Einstein from the 2,000 failed attempts at the light-bulb) You can do it, just wait until God says it is the right moment!

~Tristan