Wheaton College - Tower Yearbook (Wheaton, IL)

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Our life is created, reconciled, and redeemedg it finds in Jesus Christ its origin, its essence, and its goal . . Christ says the 'yes' to what is created, to becoming and to growth, to the flower and to the fruit .... -Dietrich Bonhoeffer I

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'X-K-...Hu srh God Our Cultivator At Wheaton certain kinds of experience include us all. We take in the same classes, the same special events, and the same chapel messages. But in these common denominators we still say sometimes, That was aimed right at me. It filled my needs. The Bible says that God is not only the Sower, but the Sustainer and the Vinedresser. He provides sun and rain, cool and heat: bread for each day's needs. He prunes our barren stalks, andpulls the weeds. Class devotions or advice from a friend can move us back on the track when we're off course. When we feel unloved, a card in CPO, a supper appointment, or a little favor from a roommate will change our mood. God provides for our every need. God also plans time for the ripening and fruition of his plants. In Psalm 1, the righteous tree brings forth fruit in its ' season. Modern Christians often get impatient with their maturity, perhaps because their instant culture offers them quick-and-easy meals and clothes, and teach-yourself-in-two weeks organ lessons and foreign languages. But our wise Farmer bides His time, knowing that as He waits, those green apples will turn red. How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, Stoln on his wing my three and twentieth year! My hasting days fly on with full career, But my late spring no bud or blossom show'th. Perhaps my semblance might deceive the truth, That I to manhood am arrived so near, And inward ripeness doth much less appear, That come more timely-happy spirits endu'th. Yet be it less or more, or soon or slow, It shall be in the strictest measure even To that same lot, however mean or high, Toward which Time leads me, and the will of Heaven, All is, ifl have grace to use it so, As ever in my great Taskmaster's eye. -John Milton