forever...

from Demon: A Memoir by Tosca Lee. Very riveting book, the Bible as told by a fallen angel.

...I have to tell you one other significant thing that happened.

In the Jewish temple, Elohim's [God's] Spirit resided in the Holy of Holies. Do an Internet search if you don't know what I mean. All you really need to know is that it was the most sacred place on earth. Only the high priest could enter it and then only once a year and bearing the blood of atonement--one of El's many concessions to the clay people [humans]. the curtain concealing the Holy of Holies from the rest of the temple was heavy, requiring more than a hundred men to move it. There was no mistaken entry, and the symbolism was blatant: there had been no open communion with El since those days in the garden.

This is what you need to know: as the God-man [Jesus], hanging on the cross like a common criminal, died, the curtain ripped. Access to God, so long denied to any but the appointed, was now laid open to anyone, the blood of atonement having been paid in full according to the old law. The heavy partition that had separated the spirit of El from the fallen soul of man was broken forever...

THIS WEEK

Hello everyone! I hope you had a great week last week during our many ANQ WEEK events. I would like to say a special congratulations to the New Doves of Lambda Chapter!

This week, we will be having our prayer table in the lower level of Blackburn, as it is every Monday, from 11am-4pm.

Wednesday, April 13 will be our INFORMAL INTEREST MEETING, locating in the School of Communications Room 211 at 7:29pm. Please come out if you want to know more about our organization.

Finally, we will have our weekly prayer at the flagpole at 1pm on Friday. Join us on the yard for prayer.

Also, Friday night is ARMC Beacon Liturgical Dance Minisitry's Annual Concert! Please come out on FRIDAY at 7pm in the Chapel. The following day, Saturday, is the HU Community Choir's Spring Concert at 5pm in the Chapel.

Have a great week, and lookout! It's almost the end of the semester!

Word of the Week
Prautes – the Greek word for gentleness; humility, meekness.

Gentleness is a characteristic of Jesus
“By the meekness and gentleness of Jesus Christ, I Paul appeal to you.” 2 Corinthians 10:1

We show the gentleness of Christ when we approach others including enemies in a humble and caring spirit, not using force to get one’s way.

And as children of God, we are to bear the fruit of gentleness:
“But the fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and
self-control. Against such things there is no law.” Galatians 5:23

Celebrating our Women: Saadia Doyle

Howard forward Saadia Doyle was named the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) Player of the Week on February 21st. That week, Doyle (Forward, 5-11, Sophomore) averaged 28.0 points, 1.5 rebounds and 2.5 steals to aid the Lady Bison to two winsagainst Norfolk State and Florida A&M. In the 66-49 win over Norfolk State, Doyle posted a career-high 38 points, 10 rebounds, and stole three passes. She followed that performance with a double-double of 18 points, 13 rebounds and two steals in against Florida A&M. For the week, Doyle shot 48.0 percent from the floor and 80.0 percent from the charity stripe. On February 26th, she was named the HSRN Player of the week.

And just recently, she was named the MEAC PLAYER OF THE YEAR!!! Doyle, the 2010 MEAC Rookie of the Year, averaged 18.2 points and 8.9 rebounds to aid the Lady Bison to a 9-6-conference record and a 13-16 overall mark. The Atlanta, GA native reached the 1,000 point mark against Maryland Eastern Shore on February 26 to become the second player in Howard history to score 1,000 points in only two years of competition. The sophomore currently leads the conference in scoring and ranks among the top five in free-throw percentage (76.0) and minutes played (34.9). She is also ranked 22nd in the nation with 13 double-double performances.

MARCH

It's a new month with brand new mercies!

March is Women's Month, and so the theme for this month is “Virtuous Women.” We will be exploring what it means to be a woman, and what it means to be virtuous. Send in articles about women who impacted your life, different experiences you’ve had, or stories about women who’ve overcome. If you would like to send in an entry, please email it to  nulife.blog@gmail.com. If you have any other questions/comments, please send it there as well.

Virtuous Woman Campaign – REVAMPED

Every spring semester, we have our Virtuous Woman Campaign. This semester,  we decided to attack the campaign from an alternate method. Instead of having a Virtuous Woman Week, we are launching a PR campaign to recognize and celebrate virtuous women as well as challenge people’s understanding of what it means to be virtuous. We won’t be having events. Instead, we will be doing the following:

· Handing out carnations to the women students during prayer at the flagpole

· Posting blogs and facebook messages/statuses examining the meaning of virtuousity, stories about real life virtuous women, tributes in song, verse, and visual art, etc.

· Posting tweets encouraging women to examine their own meaning of virtuous and remain virtuous

· Chalking the campus as well (see previous)

· Flyers, etc. at the prayer booth giving tribute to virtuous women

· Youtube videos

We will also be having the White Room at the end of March. Part of its mission is to shed light/give testimony to the individual different ways we walk out the process to becoming virtuous. The theme for the White Room is “Letting Go of My Ex,” moving on from different “ex-es” to become more and more whole, to become more and more virtuous.

Have a great month, and we hope the blogs will help you deeper your understanding of all things!