Sunday, May 19, 2013

Baccalaureate Benediction

Class of 2013,
May your time here in Boston not have been in vain. 
May you never look back and call these the absolute best years of your life. 
May you never stop learning. 
May you find a career. 
Barring that, may you find work. 
Barring that, may you find peace in the search.
May you never be in want for loving friends nor quiet solitude.

May you live the life to which God is calling you.

To quote author Marianne Williamson, “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.  It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.  We ask ourselves, ‘Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?’ Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God.  Your playing small does not serve the world.” 

Fellow graduates, friends, family, colleagues, faculty, staff:  You are, each of you, children of God.  It is my most sincere prayer that you go forward from this place and be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous.  

To be shamelessly trite, may you… Be You.

Amen.

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