Faith & Life Inspirational Message

I like working on a college campus.   Of course, it has some drawbacks, but for me personally the advantages far outweigh those drawbacks.   Part of what I like so much is the range of things that go on.   There is a huge range of things that students study.   Some things I know quite a bit about and other things, I barely know what the subject means.   And when you have this many people united in one enterprise called a college, there is an amazing diversity of abilities and talents.   Music, art, clubs, work and so much more make the array of possible involvement feel almost limitless.             One thing I did not mention in the list was sports.   I like sports.   I played sports and I still like to watch sports.   I would be the first to admit that sports in America are probably out of whack.   There may well be too much time and money spent on a variety of games.   Thi...

In an academic world where I live, every year I get to watch the campus come alive.  Traditionally American campuses are quieter during the summer months.  Even if there is summer school and the normal spate of camps, etc., summer is not the same.  So I always am eager to see things begin to change.  It is almost as predictable as the changing of the leaves during autumn. Like the changing of the leaves on the tree, I am never sure which day I will notice the change.  Yesterday it happened.  I arrived fairly early on campus and there is the usual calm.  I am one of the earlier ones to arrive on campus, so it is still very quiet.  I can park almost anywhere I want.  Sometimes the door to my building is still locked, so I fumble for my key.  Since I am in an old building---one more than a hundred years old---I am greeted with some creaks and familiar sounds that I never hear when it hums with students. Later in the morning, I had to go...