ALUMNI REFLECTIONS

Cadet Chris Browne, son of Doug and Mary Browne of Chicago Park, graduates from the U.S. Military Academy on May 21.

Browne graduated from Forest Lake Christian High School in 2007. While at West Point, he continued his studies in engineering, philosophy and military studies.

He will be commissioned as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army within the Armor branch and will report to Ft. Benning, Ga., for his first assignment.

The U.S. Military Academy is a four-year co-educational federal undergraduate liberal arts college located 50 miles north of New York City.

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Embarrassment – And why you shouldn’t let it hold you back.

The better you are at things, the fewer mistakes you make, the fewer mistakes you make, the less embarrassment you usually go through. Generally, I like to avoid embarrassing myself. I enjoy doing things I am good at. I am usually more reluctant to dive into things I am not good at. I am not good at sports. Some people are natural athletes. I am a natural klutz. This does not matter to the state of California, however. It still requires for all able-bodied (walking, breathing) students to complete a certain amount of physical education units throughout their high school career. Download full article “Thoughts from Left Field”

Suffering is a brick wall

I was just contemplating suffering. Why do we suffer? What is its purpose? How should we respond to it? Much musing, and several passages of Scripture later, I found that suffering is a brick wall.

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