What wonderful and inclusive words !
Commencement. . . the beginning, the starting
point of so many experiences:

Learning to walk…..starting first grade –

To read and spell – to ride a bicycle

The start of a anew school year

Driving a car alone for the first time –

and GRADUATION of course,

each with it’s own accomplishment !

Now you have come to an hour of achievement in one segment of your life. You’ve worked hard, hung in there, have accomplished and…

GRADUATED ---- CONGRADULATIONS !!!

With graduation, there is the joy of having completed many of your goals. You’ve finished much of what you set out to do, and yet in a very real sense, you are now at a place of beginning again. Perhaps, even with a bit of apprehension as you set out on a whole new vista. You will be launching into further study and numerous doors of opportunity will be opened to you….

COMMENCEMENT !

As you enter this new phase of your life, pray that God will give you wisdom, understanding and direction regarding decisions that you will of necessity need to make, and that God will give you the moral courage and stamina to live the kind of life that those around you will know you as a person of real integrity and high moral character.

Through your love for God, and dependence on Him, He can and will make every provision for you. I wish you much Joy and abundant blessings as you set forth on your new venture in the fall.

Proverbs 3:5,6. Trust in the Lord with all thine heart, and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.