Wheaton College - Tower Yearbook (Wheaton, IL)

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Our Father, Our Master Designer Gordon Fee, in fall quarter Special Services, said, I love my children because they're mine. As our Father, God does not wait for the completion of our becoming to love us. And more than that, He pronounces us perfect, and uses us. In some marvelous way God has pleasure and profit from our buds, green fruit, or half-formed clay. Each student at Wheaton will grow more into his unique role of-prayer partner, astrophysicist, poet, and you- name-it! Like snowflakes we each have a different pattern. Some day fruition will come. All imperfections removed, the vessel will receive the final polish. The in- strument will fully become that which it was created and recreated to be. And we shall be like Him. Images and metaphors fail here, in that the end product attracts all the glory even when one stresses the amazing process of Christian growth. Each moment that we grow to final perfection we are perfect for God's present purposes. It is a paradox and mystery: becoming. Don't forget the i-n-gf,

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Batter my heart, three personed Godg for You As yet but knock, breathe, shine, and seek to mendg That I may rise and stand, o'erthrow me, and bend Your force to break, blow, burn, and make me new. from Sonnet 14 John Donne sb

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