Huntington Hall Lock Down

With the thought of summer around the corner excitement, yet a little sadness resides in the hearts of our fellow floor mates. With finals coming to an end all that's left is spending our last few days with the amigos before embarking on our summer journeys wherever they may be. Tonight could have set forth a tradition to be carried out the remainder of our years at Vanguard University. The last week of school has been known for its pranking for some time now, which has been made known to our courageous campus safety. Acquiring this knowledge our thoughts came together with the idea to parade around the campus with hoodies and earplugs to catch the eye of campus security. With security on high alert it didn't take long for them to notice our fairly large group of guys running around campus looking extremely suspicious. The most hilarious part we were doing absolutely nothing! The security separated two in the vehicle, one on a Segway, one on foot, and a reliable report placed another on lookout in a tree in search of the crazy hooligans who seemed to be up to no good. It was our goal to get caught seeing how we had done nothing wrong, so eventually we ran straight into a member of the squad of campus security. We then went through their procedure of giving them our names followed by our I.D. numbers. After the exchange of information we made our way back with the laughs of everything that took place of the chase. Approaching our living space known as Huntington Hall, we came to find the stairwell had been locked for some apparent reason. Checking the next stairwell it also had been locked while around the corner another campus security stood awaiting in return of the parading hooligans. Huntington Hall was put on Lock Down! This was made possible because we decided to go for a little run for fun in our hoodies.

"Beauty of Simplicity"

Today a song came on the radio I haven't heard in a very long time. It was one of those songs that always seemed to make me think and calm my thoughts simultaneously. It was the song I would sing in the on deck circle before every at bat during my High School Baseball career. "Its the Beauty of Simplicity, that brings me down to my knees", are the words that would repeat over and over in the back of my mind. These words are so deep and powerful describing God's gift of his son death in order that we may have life, this simple yet so unfathomable love astonishes me everyday. This is the reason I have come to love my Father because He first loved me and for that, worthy of my praise. Gods "Beauty of Simplicity", is found so often when looking around at his marvelous creation to the everyday works God is doing in our lives. All it takes is to take a step back, take a breath, and look around at the blessings He has provided us with and the growth taking place within ourselves. It all brings us back to the idea that God loves us so much; He longs for our recognition of that fact! There is so much beauty found in our Loving Creator when just taking a look. Take a look for yourself of what God has done and placed in your lives and be thankful for his unending grace He freely gives. Rest in the "Beauty of Simplicity" our Father provides us with.

"Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need."
Hebrews 4:16