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Jordans vs. Jesus: Does it even make sense?

A world dominated by the material things.

Bryanna Youtzy

Nov 17, 2016

Mount Saint Mary University

Jordans vs. Jesus: Does it even make sense?

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A world that is dominated by iPhones, the internet, fashion, and relationships is a world that leads to emptiness. Maybe, starting today, this can change by redirecting our thoughts towards healthier lifestyles.

We are materialist beings

Molded, shaped, destroyed

Employed by secular ideals

Feeling nothing that is real

Why do our iPhones

Take up more time than our Bible

We’re unreliable and its undeniable

Our priorities aren’t straight

Why do humanly relationships

Attempt to fill a hole

Never keeping our soul satisfied

But Jesus has no role

Maybe one day we will see

To flee our pain and suffering

We will ditch our surface covering

And get deep

We care more about a stain

On the whites of our Jordans

Than we ever could about the pain

We inflict on others

Do you see what I’m saying?

How sad is this life of ours?

Maybe I’m sour, a dead flower

Hoping to finally get some sun

Unplug from the internet

Social media, Google, Soundcloud

Stop listening to the newest mixtape

Escape from the prison you are in

Appreciate,

Eliminate the empty space

Fill it with faith

Get your life straight

But what hypocrite am I

To lie and say I am different

The truth is I feel like I would die

Without an iPhone by my side

The stains on my shoes bother me

The internet makes me feel free

Does everyone see

The emptiness within me?

My headphones are in my pocket

But my Bible in my drawer

I want to soar, ignore the truth

Yet the truth shakes me to my core

I see more SnapChats than Pastors

Facebook likes are a must

This trust, this lust for attention

The Bible never mentioned

I guess we’re all afraid

To lay down our lives for Him

We would rather sin, then begin

To make a difference

Today is the day of change

Can you accept my call to you?

Our lives need to be rearranged

We know what we need to do

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1. When course schedules are released and you have a conflict between two required classes.

2. When there is only one section of a popular course.

3. Receiving the 18,000 emails reminding you to register ASAP.

4. When you need to see an advisor, but they are too busy/unresponsive.

5. Trying not to dress like a bum for your appointments with your advisors/department heads.

6. When you have a perfectly planned out schedule, and one class ruins it.

7. Carefully moving things around to accommodate a different class/section.

8. Waking up at 6:00 a.m. for your enrollment time.

9. Concocting a new schedule at your enrollment time after your original plan gets changed.

10. Getting into a class and filling the last available seat.

11. When all of your classes finally go through.

12. Realizing that you forgot a class that was a pre-requisite for everything else.

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