It’s that time of year (for those in the academic cycle anyway), where things wind down and things begin to change. We had Baccalaureate yesterday, and I put on my silly black robe. For something that’s supposed to help us celebrate being smarter I’m not sure why they make us wear something that makes us look so dumb. I feel like a little girl playing dress up in clothes that are way too big for me. And they have strange long flaps on the sleeves. My friend told me that historically people would put food in those flaps, and I’m considering doing that for the 3-hour long graduation ceremony. 
At any rate, I’ve got a busy week ahead, with finals, graduation festivities, and Lebanon! That’s right, in case you hadn’t heard, I leave for a 6-week practicum in Beirut in just over a week. I’ll be working with Armenian women and at-risk youth in a neighborhood called Bourj Hammoud, developing a business start-up funding proposal and helping with job-training skills. I’m very excited! I’ll do my best to update my blog while I’m there, so please check back for updates and pictures of my experience! I leave on June 14 – please pray for safe travel and health, and that God will really teach me while I am there.
I arrive back in the States on July 28, and will take the next month and a half to finish summer coursework (commencement is just a tease, apparently), before I move on to the next season. More on that to come in a future post.
Dr. Linda Wagoner spoke to us yesterday on the topic of: “Gloria Dei Vivens Homo,” that the glory of God is in a human being fully alive. It was a fitting message for me, as I would say much of my growth here at Fuller has circled close to that theme. I have grown more alive than ever before in this season, and pray that as the pace remains quick in the coming weeks that I will live more fully still. Our humanity – our aliveneness – does not just involve awakening new parts of us, but also in allowing some parts to die. I will have many of these goodbyes and letting goes in the weeks and months ahead – goodbyes I do not want and tried my best to avoid. Lord, help me to find new life even as some things come to an end. Let me live fully alive, that your glory may be found in me.
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