Proud to be Purple
Purple is a color that we've always been surrounded by. It is the color of iconic childhood characters (Barney the Purple Dinosaur). It is the color of vegetables our parents made us eat (eggplant or purple cabbage) and our favorite fruits (purple grapes or plums). It is the color of some of our favorite sports teams (LSU, Minnesota Vikings, & the LA Lakers to name a few) as well as our favorite flowers (lilacs, orchids, violets, & lavendar). It was the color chosen by a storybook character to draw his imaginary world (Harold & the Purple Crayon). It is a color tied to nobility. Proverbs 31: 22 connects the color purple to a wife of noble character--"She makes covering for her bed; she is clothed in fine linen and purple. It is also the color of royalty. It is a color that was worn by kings. For one King, it was used as a way to mock him--Mark 15:17-18 says "They put a purple robe on him, then twisted together a crown of thorns and set it on him. And they began to call out to him, 'Hail, king of the Jews!'"
For us, purple is one of the things that binds us together. On most other University campuses, you'd have to go on a "Where's Waldo?" search to find anyone wearing purple. At CCU, however, every other person who comes through the door is wearing one shade or another. We wear it to class. Our athletes have it on their uniforms. Our keys are on purple key chains. Our assignments are in purple binders. You can't get away from it. It's who we are. It's the family atmosphere that makes us special. It's not so much the color itself that we are proud of. It's what it represents. We're proud of purple because we're proud of CCU.
For us, purple is one of the things that binds us together. On most other University campuses, you'd have to go on a "Where's Waldo?" search to find anyone wearing purple. At CCU, however, every other person who comes through the door is wearing one shade or another. We wear it to class. Our athletes have it on their uniforms. Our keys are on purple key chains. Our assignments are in purple binders. You can't get away from it. It's who we are. It's the family atmosphere that makes us special. It's not so much the color itself that we are proud of. It's what it represents. We're proud of purple because we're proud of CCU.
