![MORE THAN A GAME. With two diving catches in the outfield, the Lions showed up defensively, aiding in their victory over the Pacers. One catch was made by Atwood, and the other by McGraw. Throughout the game, the Lions knew that it wasn’t just about their victory today. “I think [playing for cancer] makes it bigger than just a game,” McGraw said. “Knowing that you have a bigger impact in this world than just who you are as one person.”](https://wlhsnow.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/I70A1454-1-1200x800.jpg)
![Students in the National Art Honor Society work on the Mount Hood mural on the window of SouthLake Church. The students brought a variety of paints and mixed their own custom colors. “Instead of brushstrokes, we’re doing more dabbing, because it gives [a] better impression of tree foliage, rather than looking like actual brush strokes, because if we’re painting trees, we need it to look like trees,” Crawford said.](https://wlhsnow.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/IMG_2397-1200x900.jpg)
Gott Gib Mir Gelassenheit-The Spooky Season
Gott Gib Mir Gelassenheit-orginal digital artwork by Kai Hogan
Take note before reading: Gott Gib Mir Gelassenheit means God Give Me Serenity
The forest is foggy
As if it is concealing something from me
I clasp the cross around my neck
Yet there is no God here
Screams echo in the distance
They are quiet but this makes them even more haunting
The forest silences everything
Even the purest manifestation of human agony
As I get closer to the screams
I begin to feel forsaken
Suddenly a German phrase emerges in my mind
Gott Gib Mir Gelassenheit
I whisper as I approach a face worse than death itself
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