California Baptist University 2022

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The Editor

W hen you think of the word “restructure,” there is a signal that validates an existing knowledge about the word, and that enables individuals to create a new knowledge that can relate to anything going on in their lives. When I process the word “restructure,” I think of the not-so-perfect life that forces me to create new patterns, routines and growth. I am sure you can agree that living life is full of complexities, but there is beauty in those complications that force you to grow as an individual. For one, living through a pandemic as a young person is terrifying and exhausting. While the world is consistently running in crisis mode, officials are governing the way we need to live our lives. Though our world is trying to manage how to live through a pandemic, we are those young people trying to understand how to manage our own lives with it. While managing, this leaves a new perspective and new guidelines on how to live. If you were to ask me how my life has forced me to restructure three years ago, I would not tell you that I have been forced to live with the passing of my stepdad, or that my childhood home would be sold and I would have to find a new home where the connection I once had with my mother got lost along the way. I also would not tell you that accepting a leadership opportunity working 40 hours a week, encountering anxiety while being a college student and trying to live my best life would be so difficult all at the same time. The reality of everything is that my routines changed, and I was forced to leave comfortability and learn how to structure uncomfortably. Life does not care about what your plans or your feelings are, and that is the hardest part to understand while changing. What life does care about in some odd way is how she wants you to step out of comfort. Restructuring is different for everyone, and it is always in motion as it is a reality we all share. Given the uncomfortable structure, we all need to learn, this cannot be done alone. As humans, the relationships we form with one another and God are vital to our lives. The wisdom of others, the Bible as instructional guidance and the heart of relationships form a unique foundation for restructuring. I hope that when you open this book, you will understand how California Baptist University restructured as university — through students and events. As these stories were written during a year of change, acknowledge that behind every story we are all managing a unique form of restructuring in this 70th edition of the Angelos yearbook.

WORDS Anyssa Gonzalez

PHOTO Ryan DeHart

DESIGN Kia Harlan

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