Covenant College - Tartan Yearbook (Lookout Mountain, GA)

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The time between birth and death is an exper- ience not to be endured, but to be enriched by a more basic purpose. The minutes, the hours, the days, the months, and the years spent in this life are not to be contrasted with what will follow that short space of time. Those two con- cepts should be aligned in proper perspective so that the first might be a preparation for the second. Measured time here should be seen as the unfolding of the Almighty's purposes for limitless eternity. And that is the rough pattern that must be applied to all our activities, whether they be universal in proportion or the smaller happen- ings of a college campus. Only when the powerful telescope piercing the length and breadth of time itself is moved out of focus does life become a dull and meaningless routine. Singleness of purpose and joy in attained goals are the results of a carefully adjusted view. Indeed, man's minutest events do not go unnoticed by the One who sees the sparrow's fall. Each one is important in the perfect fulfill- ment of His eternal plan. If, then, these things are so important to Him, should we not watch carefully the manner in which we spend our time here? For the preacher, in his conclusion of the whole matter, brought things into sharp per- spective when he said: For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be eVil. A . 2 ,,,f,.,sw,,. , My ,.1My'1S:4.f? 'kfigegv figs! ,, gf. ,r gy- K' .IM v ' ff ,,, ' vue, G -

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itsal-sf ADMINISTRATION, FACULTY, and STAFF Their time is not their own. They have given it to another. And the One to whom they have dedicated themselves is the center of all that they live and teach. 7