This week congratulates high school and college/ university seniors. “Matriculation” is a rite of passage one never forgets. Graduates, I admire you and pray you won’t do anything stupid (i.e.: driving while using substances). You’ve a future to fulfill. College graduates, jumping into the San Marcos River is a tradition; therefore, it is fun, not stupid. Looking toward careers choices and job searches calls for a little levity.
On television, C-SPAN has a series of addresses given by invited speakers to university-graduating classes. These free-rein short speeches come with advice and counsel on how the audience should set course now they’re entering the job-market world.
This is my ‘CSPAN’ advice, based on Luke 2:42-47: “When Jesus was twelve years old, he accompanied his parents to Jerusalem for the annual Passover …After the celebration was over, they started home to Nazareth… His parents didn’t miss him the first day, for they assumed he was with friends among the other travelers, but when he didn’t show up that evening, they started to look for him among their relatives and friends; and when they couldn’t find him, they went back to Jerusalem and spent three days searching for him.” They had made a mistake. My message to you is about mistakes. If the earthly father, Joseph, and the anointed mother of Jesus Christ, Mary, could make a mistake, can’t we also? Yes, and we do.
