Graduation
This is the season of graduations for a good number of folks in our church. I‘ve been seeing pictures of caps and gowns on social media. Invitations to graduation parties are in the mail, acceptance letters to college are being considered, lots of kids are being asked what’s your plan now? We’ve got families in our church with children graduating from high school. A number of parents have children graduating from college or graduate school. This next week we’ve invited all our graduating high school seniors from church to go out to dinner with us just so that we can spend one last evening together knowing that come fall, they’ll be off to new places.
We describe graduations in many ways in our culture. We talk about how our young people are turning the page, finishing one chapter and moving on to a new one. Parents reflect back on how fast the time has gone by and they can remember putting their child on the bus for the first day of kindergarten, now they are sending them away on their own. It is an exciting and anxious time for many.
I am so excited for and proud of so many of our young people. I too think back to times spent with many of our young people on mission trips or at Bible study on Thursday night or activities at church. I think back to Vacation Bible School and doing Bible skits with them when they were so little. I pray God’s blessing upon them as they prepare to head out to new places and that their time spent here at Wright’s Chapel will continue to shape them into the disciples of Jesus God would have them be.
I also use this time of year though to think about what pages I am turning and how are we turning to a new page here at Wright’s Chapel? What new chapter are we ready to start? What new adventure are we ready to begin and where is God leading us. Just because some of us have been here a long time, and we aren’t planning on going anywhere anytime soon, doesn’t mean that something new isn’t brewing. This is a great time of year for us each to be asking ourselves personally and for us to be asking ourselves as a church, what does God have in store for us on the next page?
God is stirring some things in my heart and soul that make me both excited and anxious. What is God stirring in you? It is that time of year!
