Back to the future

So I got to reunite with a couple of former students yesterday at their high school graduation. Its great to reaquaint with old friends, I hope its okay to call them friends now. I think its great to be able to sit and talk with people who could stay perpetually adolescent in your mind and realize that they are now mature young adults, filled with hope, excitement and maybe even a twinge of fear about the future. The whole graduation ceremony was an encouragement to me, as it restores hope for tomorrow, that there are still good people coming through "the system", people with something to offer the planet. Now how do those people get reached by God?