Recipe for the Bachelortilla
• cooked beef-flavored ramen noodles w/ chunks of canned chicken
• tortilla
• shredded cheese
Directions: Add ramen noodles (make sure they’re cooked or this will crunch) w/ chicken chunks to tortilla. Sprinkle shredded cheese on top. Fold tortilla and microwave till cheese melts (depends on microwave, but mine took about a minute). Eat and enjoy! You know you will. Oh, yeah! Seriously, it’s got cheese, enjoy it.
“the towers that shoulder your pride
the words you’ve written in stone
sand will cover them, sand will cover you
the streets that suffer your name
your very flesh and your bones
sand will cover them, sand will cover youso put your faith in more than steel
don’t store your treasures up, with moth and rust
where thieves break in and steal
pull the fangs from out your heel
we live in but a shadow of the realstep out from time, see the dust of nations
step out from time, hear the stars ovationSaturn will not sleep, until the sand has made us clean
still we stack our stones and bury what we can
but it all will be undone, and nothing built under the sun
will ever stand before the endless march of sandso put your faith in more than steel
don’t store your treasures up, with moth and rust
where thieves break in and steal
pull the fangs from out your heel
we live in but a shadow of the realso put your faith in more than steel
don’t store your treasures up, with moth and rust
where thieves break in and steal
pull the fangs from out your heel
we live in but a shadow of the real (Source)”
Thrice – Of Dust and Nations
Sand will cover me, sand will cover you. So while we’re here, do something that matters. Find the real values — the treasures that will follow you beyond death.
Jesus said, “Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me.” He also said, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to [God] the Father except through me.” He is the true way to life. The only way to God. (John 14)
Forget whatever you believe that holds you back from investing all you have in this truth. Atheism doesn’t need or want you — your arguments may be interesting and well-constructed, but they serve nothing when you’re dust. Faith in God is not a manyfold path; Jesus says he’s the only way to God, and he meant it. Forget what the Christians say — our words matter not, but the words of God and the words of Christ will get you somewhere other than down-and-out, somewhere other than depressed, something better than despair. And for those of you holding back what you do have — let go of the dirt, the mud, your favorite sins. Let go and listen to truth, listen to God, listen and live.
Hope.
Sand will cover you, but sand is not the climax, it’s not the end — faith leads us beyond.