I left for class early so I could figure out exactly went wrong with last week’s getting lost incident. The door that I go into actually walks into the second floor. When I get on the elevator to go upstairs, there is a two on the door and a sign that says “Level 2”. So last week when I got on the elevator to go back down, I should’ve taken it back to the second floor, not the first. I’d not done that before but for some reason was confused.

To search it out further, I asked the girl sitting next to me if she thought the layout of this particular Brookens building was confusing. She said it definitely was so it wasn’t just me. She works at the university and used to train tour guides, so she happened to know the random fact that the architect who designed the building strongly believed that students could not learn how to think outside the box if they were going to school in a box.

So he designed the building to have zero right angles. I was going to say it was shaped like an octagon or something like that but that’s not quite right either. The classrooms are all in the inner portion of the building and have no windows. The music for the ride there was worship and praise music. I heard a beautiful song I’d never before heard, that when I caught the words, I was sure they were saying the most marvelous things.

Come Behold the Wondrous Mystery
by Matt Boswell, Michael Bleecker, Matt Papa

Come behold the wondrous mystery
In the dawning of the King
He the theme of heaven’s praises
Robed in frail humanity
In our longing, in our darkness
Now the light of life has come
Look to Christ, who condescended
Took on flesh to ransom us

Come behold the wondrous mystery
He the perfect Son of Man
In His living, in His suffering
Never trace nor stain of sin
See the true and better Adam
Come to save the hell-bound man
Christ the great and sure fulfillment
Of the law, in Him we stand

Come behold the wondrous mystery
Christ the Lord upon the tree
In the stead of ruined sinners
Hangs the Lamb in victory
See the price of our redemption
See the Father’s plan unfold
Bringing many sons to glory
Grace unmeasured, love untold

Come behold the wondrous mystery
Slain by death the God of life
But no grave could ever restrain Him
Praise the Lord, He is alive

What a foretaste of deliverance
How unwavering our hope
Christ in power resurrected
As we will be when he comes