Commencement
June 12, 2011
Richard R. Crocker, College Chaplain
This is the day that the Lord has made. Let us rejoice and be glad in it!
On this Pentecost day, we remember the promise:
Your sons and daughters shall prophecy. Old men and women shall dream dreams; young men and women shall see visions.
Today old ones – parents, grandparents, great grandparents, in body and in spirit - see their dreams realized.
Today young ones – our students, our sons and daughters, our grandsons and granddaughters - see visions.
We are all full of hope and gratitude.
May God’s spirit rest upon us all, enabling us to listen to the groaning of a fragile, endangered, and violent world, and enabling us to speak with voices of compassion that all can understand.
May the dreams of the old and the visions of the young lead us to a world of justice, mercy, and peace.
Amen.
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