The end of the school year brings with it a lull to which I have looked forward. However, now that I’m in the lull I find myself both leery and lonely. Leery because all year I have been driven to pursue answers to the question “What is a life of faith?” and now I find without the push of the programs I do not ask myself the question nearly enough. And I find myself lonely for the students with whom I have had such deep and rich conversations and whom I have watched wrestle with this faith life have now left for summer work, great adventures or life under their parent’s roof . The lull has liabilities of both laziness and loneliness. However even with its liabilities the lull does give one time to reflect on where we have been and where we wish to go. And so I offer these reflections...
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