The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 70, No. 16, Ed. 1 Friday, January 14, 1983 Page: 3 of 16
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THRESHING-IT-OUT
SA veep lauds monitors
for final exams task
To the editor:
For the Student Association and
the Registrar's Office, I would like
to thank everyone who served as
exam monitors during finals last
month. We appreciate your taking
time from your own routines to
make life easier to deal with for the
rest of us.
Chris Claunch
Internal VP
Student Association
Student sings praises
of God, good life
To the editor:
When was the last time you felt
the presence of God in your life?
For the past three years at Rice it
was a rare occasion for me to feel
it. The same probably goes for you
unless you're one of the few people
that has been involved in the
Christian organizations on
campus. God bless those people!
This year has been different.
Have you noticed yet? More Bible
studies have started, more people
are spending their Friday and
Saturday nights in fellowship with
other Christians, and around
campus, you can even hear people
openly talking about Jesus if you
listen.
By now you've looked down the
page to see who is writing this stuff
about Jesus. This isn't supposed to
be in the Thresher, and I'm not
supposed to talk about God except
on Sunday. Well, if that's what you
think, somebody's been fooling
you for a long time. I can't blame
you though; I was fooled for a long
time, too!
Jesus is real. He's the motivating
force in my life and He's here to
stay. The decision I made was an
easy one, mentally and spiritually.
However, socially and physically,
it was a challenge. It's been six
months now and the initial
struggle is over. With Jesus living
His life through me, my problems
aren't as burdensome, my life is
more energetic and my dreams will
come true. This isn't because I'm
living on a cloud, because I'm not;
I've simply got faith in God to
answer my prayers and he does!
The decision I made was so
simple and humbling, just the way
■God intended it to be. I confessed
Jesus as my Lord and Saviour and
asked God to show me the way,
His way.
With a total faith in Him, I no
longer needed my old way of life
for my security; it wasn't very good
security to begin with. God is the
sole source of that security now.
It's a glorious feeling and I thank
him for it.
The thing about Jesus is that He
is here, right now, and you don't
need a minister or a baptism or a
church or anything else to find
him, just a decision from your
heart is all it takes. Now, don't get
me wrong. The things I've
mentioned are all good and part of
a Christian's walk with God but
you need to take that first step. It's
that simple and no one else can do
it for you.
We argue about all kinds of
things like God's existence, His
intervention in the world today,
what happens to people who never
hear about Christ, evolution, the
Big Bang theory, and on and on.
The point is, you walk away from
those arguments with no
revelation of God, just the
satisfaction of winning an
argument or the depression of
losing one, and the sense of self-
security you've built up through
your argument. When really you
think about Jesus and what He did
for you on the cross, you can get a
revelation of God, what His
purpose is for your life, and what
He has to offer you.
I did and I got it, simply and
humbly, the way God meant it to
be. It's a frustrating thought that
some things can be too simple for
some of us to grasp and
understand. If it's going to take a
miracle to get you to realize who
God is, look at me, I'm born again,
and if that's not a miracle, I don't
know what is!
In the words of T. L. Osborn's
God's Big Kingdom Business:
God has a dream and I do too.
God's dream concerned the good
of others and mine does too.
God never gave up on his dream
and I won't either.
God's dream came true and mine
will too.
Glory to God!
Jim Anderson
WRC '83
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Fort asks forgiveness,
bids Rice farewell
To the Editor:
It's hard to know how to say
these things, but here goes. A long
time ago I left Rice with an article
in the Thresher magazine
something about how "the good in
some way surrounds the true,"
along, with a general tracing, of my
path to enlightenment. Certain
departments and ways of thinking
I more or less left in the lurch.
After some time 1 returned to the
school. Again I left, with a not-so-
BLOOM COUNTY
subtle plea for God's mercy on all
of us — meaning the Rice
community.
If some of you are now mad, I
really don't blame you. The thing
that occurs to me now is that I was
looking in both cases, as much at
my own state of mind as at the
institution of which I had become a
part.
My apologies. Rice is a good
place, and there are good people
going to it. Perhaps it is this, as
much as a need to apologize, that
brought, me back two times.
The end of the story is that I did
graduate, despite my own poor
graces a continuing of a habit on
my part of chastising a place,
because it wasn't perfect in my
eyes, and then leaving it'
Anyway, here's to Rice
perfect, imperfect or whatever, and
here's to the Rice community, Mas
you live in peace, and thank you
for putting up with me — three
times.
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Cooper, Jeanne. The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 70, No. 16, Ed. 1 Friday, January 14, 1983, newspaper, January 14, 1983; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth245518/m1/3/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.