Concordia University Chicago - Pillars Yearbook (River Forest, IL)

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u. 'Q W 7 ' Nw ir.. hw Vmwsfwlb' ,G-an 1 W, The year of our Lord Nineteen Hundred Seventy-seven was routine. By and large, things went as we expected. Granted, there were political surprises both nationally and on campus. Surely, there were personal contingencies that suddenly had to be reckoned with. But probably the year started, carried on, and finished pretty much on schedule, pretty well as planned. That the year was routine does not mean, however, that it was a year of boredom and ennuig rather, it was one of new life and growth and change. Accusations and doubts challenged us daily from within and without. Up cropped new situations, thrills, and hurts. We dared not rest, we dared not grow, dared not renew our strength, psyche, or spirit. In came new Concordiansg our school life was now their life. Professors and peers demanded they adapt. Our seniors departed at graduation into a new world that tries to stifle imagination, and pull them into lifeless lassitude. We all died a little every day. Theologians have said in the midst of life we are in death. Friendships crumbled, visions faded, trusts were shattered. Every day someone new was twisting his knife in our backs. Yet daily we had new life in our Savior Christ Jesus. We were new creations, the old had passed away, behold, the new had come. In Him we were bodily refreshed - as Isaiah said. they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength, they shall mount up with wings like eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint. In Him our spirits were renewed - David proclaimed, our heart is glad in Him, because we trust His holy name. In Him we were given the Spirit's new life - with Paul we could say, I have been crucified with Christg it is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in meg and the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me. Therefore, as visible, living reminders of our new life, we dedicate this, the 1977 PILLARS, to the three new lives on campus.

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