Six years ago, I wrote a letter to my future self. I was preparing to enter seminary, and was apprehensive about what Seminary would do to me. Many students go into seminary as on-fire followers of Jesus, and come out as frozen, arrogant know-it-alls.
So I wrote a letter to myself, telling me what I wanted to be able to say once I came out of seminary. I never went back and read it all during seminary, and when I graduated three years ago, went back and read it. I posted it on this blog here.
Yesterday, as I was sifting through some old files, I stumbled across something I wrote when I was nearing graduation three years ago. I forgot that I had written it. This reflection upon graduation from seminary is posted below. [Read more…]