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Graduating with Gratitude

May 24, 2023 By Tim Gavin Leave a Comment

Each year as I prepare my sermon for the baccalaureate Eucharist service, I discern which kernels of wisdom I may offer to prepare them for a world of division, plagues, war, political upheaval, and godlessness. I wonder what they will take with them along with their diplomas and Bibles as they graduate and leave chapel.

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Ten Thoughts for Younger Me

July 7, 2021 By Miriam McKenney 6 Comments

If you could talk to your younger self, what would you say? Miriam reflects on twenty-six years of being a parent as her youngest, a 2021 high school graduate, prepares to leave home.

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Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: adult, adult children, college, daughters, empty nest, God, graduate, Jesus, love, mom, parenting, raising daughters, school, Spirit, transition

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