Ode to Cascade...01/10/05
Y'know, I've taken a lot of crap over the years for attending Cascade College. After a semester spent in a foreign land (Texas) I came home and took what many have called the easy path. Some may even consider it to not be a "real" education. This livejournal entry is to all of those people who have ever criticized anyone for attending a piece of God-blessed land in the Northwest known as Cascade College. To those people I must say, " BACK UP OFF MY GRILL!!!" :)
In my three and half years of attending Cascade I have learned more about my faith, my God, and myself than I have anywhere else. I have attained an education that has challenged me greatly and has also prepared me well for a life of service in God's kingdom. I value the relationships that have formed with professors like Dr. Tandy who will never be reduced down to just my Christmas card list because he has invested so much in my life that he deserves to know what's going on. It is on this campus that I have learned to think in a different light, to be able to see the God in everything.
Many have also criticized the service clubs that exist on Cascade's campus. Instead of sororities and fraternities, we have male and female service clubs. They exist not to throw parties, but to form a community in which members go out into the Portland area and serve people in the name of Jesus. I've seen people transformed by the love and sisterhood that they experience through what I know as Delta Sigma Rho. These girls have shared struggles, tears, triumphs, and joys with each other, and I know that my life has been richer through what I share with them.
I apologize for the sentimentality of this entry, but it just occurred to me today, as I sat in chapel and as I prayed with the Deltas afterward, that today was the first day of my very last semester. How crazy is that? In 12 short weeks I will have a college degree, I will be moving to Salem, and I will be closing this chapter of my life. Wow...it's been good. Thanks Cascade...for everything.
End mushyness.
In my three and half years of attending Cascade I have learned more about my faith, my God, and myself than I have anywhere else. I have attained an education that has challenged me greatly and has also prepared me well for a life of service in God's kingdom. I value the relationships that have formed with professors like Dr. Tandy who will never be reduced down to just my Christmas card list because he has invested so much in my life that he deserves to know what's going on. It is on this campus that I have learned to think in a different light, to be able to see the God in everything.
Many have also criticized the service clubs that exist on Cascade's campus. Instead of sororities and fraternities, we have male and female service clubs. They exist not to throw parties, but to form a community in which members go out into the Portland area and serve people in the name of Jesus. I've seen people transformed by the love and sisterhood that they experience through what I know as Delta Sigma Rho. These girls have shared struggles, tears, triumphs, and joys with each other, and I know that my life has been richer through what I share with them.
I apologize for the sentimentality of this entry, but it just occurred to me today, as I sat in chapel and as I prayed with the Deltas afterward, that today was the first day of my very last semester. How crazy is that? In 12 short weeks I will have a college degree, I will be moving to Salem, and I will be closing this chapter of my life. Wow...it's been good. Thanks Cascade...for everything.
End mushyness.
