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Mushroom Cloud of Estrogen Gas

Know how cornball meteorologists always report to the kids on Christmas Eve that they’ve spotted Santa and his sleigh on radar? Well, this week they may be reporting that satellite photos are showing an enormous mushroom cloud of estrogen gas emerging above Waco, Texas.

That’s because there is a considerable amount of emotional energy being expended by persons of the female persuasion in that general vicinity.

Sorority rush is going on right now at Baylor University, and our daughter is a part of it. At some schools, sororities and fraternities are not the big deal, socially, that they used to be. But they’re still a big deal at Baylor.

Our daughter kept her cool despite not one but TWO plane snafus on the way back down to Waco from Omaha the other day. It took her 13 hours to get there, the time it takes by car. She missed the first rush meeting, but is OK with that. Contrast that with many adults, who go bananas over a measly little half-hour scheduling delay. True to her sweet nature, our patient daughter commented that the five-hour delay at Omaha’s Eppley Airfield gave her a chance to visit with an old high-school friend, who happened to be there awaiting another flight on the way back to her college back East. It’s the old “life gives you lemons, make lemonade” routine.

Then again, that mushroom cloud over north Texas may be getting bigger. We understand that the Baylor shuttle bus from the Dallas / Fort Worth airport was out of order, so girls who flew in to DFW had to scramble for alternative transportation to travel the extra hour and a half to Waco to make it for Rush Week.

Well, duh. Why do you think they call it “rush”?

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Prayer request: Father, help make the sorority connections and associations that will be most beneficial to our daughter and most pleasing to You. Guide her to connect with the best possible group of young women who will give her good fellowship and good counsel, and help her grow and flourish in the warm light of friendship. (Proverbs 27:9)