Fight Songs

I spent the weekend with college students last weekend. At one point the schools broke out in their competing fight songs. Of course Uof M and Western were huge ones and filled the room with boisterous noise, but little old OU has a fight song that no one knows! However, there were a few who chanted the made up "Who Who's in the house? OU's in the house! OU!" Ha, it was funny. However loud and annoying fight songs are, they are arousing and they do inspire school spirit. I decided that I am pretty sure college students are some of my favorite people. With all the spirit of a highschooler and the maturity of an adult (mostly anyway) :) , they have enough of a past to make them want to change the future for themselves and for the world. Some come looking for answers, some looking for questions, most looking for community and a family that will love them for them. For freshmen, it is the start of making their faith their own and for seniors it is the start of leadership. Here are some annonymous testimonies and commitments:

"I've grown up in the catholic church, my family didn't really practice. I have been doing drugs and alchohol until last week. Last night when I got here, I thought it was pretty lame. But today it was a lot more interesting. When I heard *Lisa's (name changed) testimony about how she struggles with the same things as me and how Jesus changed her, I realized that I need to start looking into this stuff and sharing it. I want to try to start a support group on campus...."

" I was in the World Changers track and God has really challenged what I want to do with my life. I am almost done with a masters in pharmacy, but as I was working in the pharmacy the other day, I did not feel satisified at all... maybe He is calling me to something else?"

"I came here looking for community. I never had a lot of friends, but now I feel like I have people who care about me!"

There are so many other stories and hearts changed. We sang a song in Spanish that reminded me of a mulit-cultural kind of fight song. Its words were "Se Mueve, se mueve, se mueve con poder. Con con con poder Con con con poder, Con con con poder, Se mueve el mano de Dios!" "It move It moves It moves with power. With, with , with power. With, with, with power. With, with, with, power, Moves the hand of God." As we sang Con con con poder we pushed up our hands in a charge-like motion.... The university is a taste of the whole world, representing cultures, languages, customs, backgrounds, families, etc. Unity amongst all those different lives and facets of life under on Father is a little taste of Heaven.