MVL graduates 75

By FRITZ BUSCH

Journal Staff Writer

NEW ULM -- The Rev. Donald Moldstad urged 75 Minnesota Valley Lutheran High School graduates Sunday to stay in the lifeboat of Jesus Christ in order to reach their ultimate destination -- heaven.

He likened life to the Titanic and a Volkswagen commercial about the road of life,

"On the road of life, stay in God's car," Moldstad said. "Heaven is yours through Jesus Christ and his promises."

He told of how hundreds of Titanic passengers didn't think the luxurious ship could ever sink so they remained in its lavish lounges for hours after they were told to put on life preservers and go to the lifeboats that fateful night in 1912. Most of the passengers drowned when the ship sank.

"Life is like a sinking ship," Moldstad said. "No matter how good it might look right now, you need the lifeboat of Jesus Christ. You can still see the beautiful ship of life from his lifeboat. In the end, only the lifeboat matters."

Moldstad said life has many temptations, but urged graduates to remember that the ship is going down and to get the big picture.

"Good artists first set a larger perspective before working out small details," Moldstad said. "They always step back to see the big picture first."

Class speakers Amy Lotito and Nathan Nass put in no less thought to their speeches.

Lotito told her classmates to paint a picture, that we are all painters of our lives, but God should be the guiding force.

She talked about her experience at MVL

"It added many wonderful colors to our painting," Lotito said. "What a difference it made."

Nass said everybody has special gifts and abilities. He urged graduates to remember the Lord is their light and salvation and Jesus is their savior, so they have nothing to fear.