“The class of 2021” are words spoken all over the world. And yet when you sit in an audience and hear those words, there is likely one or two or a few dear faces who represent this class in your own heart and story.
Tonight we had a casual dinner to celebrate one of those members of the class of 2021. We snapped a bunch of photos and enjoyed the comfortable gift of being together.
I remember my own graduation and other significant events and was keenly aware of the wide range of competing emotions. There is a sense of relief and accomplishment, joy and sorrow, hope and fear, reflection and dreaming, confidence and doubt, and often topped off with laughter and maybe some tears.
I am grateful as I have grown older, I have learned those are not competing emotions, but more a wide range of God-given expressions of all our hearts hold. As a younger person, I remember thinking it was an either/or emotional world. I am so grateful to now understand it is a both/and journey we are all on.
Tonight, hats off to the class of 2021, all over the world!
But in my small corner, my heart is full, and my eyes are damp as I celebrate my nephew Peter! Good work, young man!
You have done it and done it well.
You maintained kindness, faith, compassion, and a good work ethic!
I love you so!
Blessed be His name
