Boishahki Bang

Bangla Club

Friday, April 6, 2012

7:00pm

University Center, Ballroom

UMBC ID = FREE

General Admission = $10.00

Ticket #: 70 of 320

Jambo Nite - SOLD OUT!!!

African Student Association

Saturday, April 7, 2012

6:00pm

University Center, Ballroom

Hunger Games Movie

SEB Bus Trip

Thursday, April 12, 2012

Bus departs The Commons Circle @ 9:00pm

All Guests = $5.00

Ticket #: 62 of 178

Hershey Park Bus Trip - SOLD OUT!!!

Student Events Board

Saturday, April 14, 2012

Bus departs The Commons Circle @ 8:00am

Gym Class Heroes

Student Events Board: Quadmania 2012

Sunday, April 22, 2012

9:00pm

The Retriever Activity Center (RAC)

All Guests = $18.00

Ticket #: 571 of 2500

Seth Sawyers ’99, history, and adjunct faculty in English, has a new essay in the online literary magazine The Millions.

This essay, which is a chapter is from his recently completed memoir about growing up in the hills of western Maryland, is entitled “Baseball, Finally.”  It appeared on the journal’s website on April 4.

“….I can still feel the rhythm of the infield drill. I did thousands of them, the movements deep inside me like the steps of a dance, like the bass lines to certain Beatles’ songs.I loved turning double plays, taking the throw from third or from short, quickly hopping backward off the bag and, in the same motion, flinging a sidearm shot to first. It was the only dance I was ever any good at,” he writes.

“…we would never again, it turns out, be quite so free, quite as on the edge of something as beautiful and deep, and strange. Way out ahead of us was the unknowable everything, but just within reach was seven innings of baseball, a game we knew better than maybe anything else in the world.”

This post originally appeared in UMBC Insights.

Revelation 7:9-10 (NIV)

9 After this I looked, and there before me was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people and language, standing before the throne and before the Lamb. They were wearing white robes and were holding palm branches in their hands. 10 And they cried out in a loud voice:

“Salvation belongs to our God,

who sits on the throne,

and to the Lamb.”

Reflection:

This is an incredible vision of the people of God of every nation, tribe, and tongue gathered to worship God. They are the people who remained faithful to God throughout the generations. And we, who are in Christ, are counted among them. God revealed to us through His Word that one day we would stand before him. He will see us through the end. How good it is to worship God together now. Then, it will be even more awesome!

Responding to the Transmission:

Let’s pray that we would see and experience this reality even more now as we ask the Lord to gather His people from every nation, tribe, and tongue — people who will worship and praise Him with one voice for His salvation victory over our lives.