Comments on: Grace in a Paperweight http://www.multnomah.edu/blog/2011/09/01/grace-in-a-paperweight/ The Official Multnomah University Blog Wed, 17 Apr 2013 15:52:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Michelle Peel http://www.multnomah.edu/blog/2011/09/01/grace-in-a-paperweight/#comment-6678 Michelle Peel Thu, 08 Sep 2011 00:43:50 +0000 http://www.multnomah.edu/blog/?p=5662#comment-6678 Thanks so much for your honesty and your vulnerable response here, Richard. I am so sorry to hear that the course of life has taken you down this road of heartache and brokenness.

It is always such a blessing to hear how the Lord uses the timeliness of our Alumni Connection to speak into the lives of our alumni, and I’m encouraged today to learn that He has used this month’s article to speak to you. I trust Him to continue to be at work in you…renewing hope and strengthening your faith. Along with Paul, I want to encourage you with these words: “I am confident of this very thing, that He who has begun a good work in you will be faithful to complete it until the day of Jesus Christ” Phil. 1:6

Know that you are in our thoughts and prayers… I am believing Him to be close to you in this time and to be all that you need. As the psalmist cried out… “Why, my soul, are you downcast? Why so disturbed within me? Put your “hope” in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God”~Psalm 42. I am trusting that as you put your hope in Him, you would find dreams realized renewed…who knows maybe someday will see you again here on Multnomah’s campus…Perhaps enrolled in our DCP (Degree Completion Program) …He is faithful and able!

His richest blessings to you,

Michelle Peel (MA ’10, BA ’00)
Director of Alumni Relations

]]> By: Pat Lane http://www.multnomah.edu/blog/2011/09/01/grace-in-a-paperweight/#comment-6434 Pat Lane Sat, 03 Sep 2011 05:15:17 +0000 http://www.multnomah.edu/blog/?p=5662#comment-6434 I am very concerned when I read on the MSB website that a faculty member has purchased and is promoting something with a quote from Mother Teresa. There is ‘way too much laxity in Christian thinking today, prompted by some of the loose theologians who are writing and selling new evangelism theories, and we have no business promoting Roman mystics and their theology. Please take this off your blog before many more people read it. I am stunned that MSB has come to this!

]]> By: Richard O'Conner http://www.multnomah.edu/blog/2011/09/01/grace-in-a-paperweight/#comment-6385 Richard O'Conner Thu, 01 Sep 2011 20:43:35 +0000 http://www.multnomah.edu/blog/?p=5662#comment-6385 Dear Michelle,
Just received an e-mail for alumni. Although I never finished my education at Multnomah it was nice to read your article about ” Grace in a Paperweight “. It seems that it was directed to me as I’m sure other readers felt also. I was enrolled at Multnomah in the middle ” 80′s ” and being married at the time deemed it neccessary to find employment to support the starting of a family. Unfortunately, since that time the downward spiral of my marriage and family ending in divorce, work life etc., and now four adult children living the life as prodicals, and a former wife idiolizing her 6 figure income and alcohol along with her ” cultural Christianity ” the lack of my faithfulness in the small things has caused me to not only doubt my worth at all but has put me in a position of extreme despair. Being unemployed now for about 2 1/2 years, no undergraduate degree, almost homeless and—-I could go on and on. I know God has forgiven me yet that acceptance is quite hard to swallow since I originally had envisioned being used as a channel for His hope and love. Now I’ve not that hope whatsoever even though the thought of returning to school is a desire that will more than likely be just that—a desire. In any event your article hopefully will be the catalyst for others to be what God has in store for them. Thanks for the ray of encouragement and Lord willing that ray will be much brighter for others. Blessings to you, Michelle.

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