It is also the time when college basketball is on everyone's mind. Our family's team, the UNC Tar Heels has made it to the Final Four in the NCAA Tournament which will be decided in games this Saturday and Monday night.
(We are grooming our ten month old golden retriever Evie to be a fan, but sometimes she is more interested in Dad and the popcorn he makes for the big games!)
Because our daughter has spent the past year taking GRE Exams, researching English PhD programs, and applying to graduate schools, we are acutely aware that this is also the time of university acceptances, which hopeful students everywhere await with deep anguish until they hear from all the places they have applied.
During her years at school, we have heard stories of so many of our daughter's friends who have found just the right mentor, or the perfect program of study, or a timely internship, and later, great jobs in big cities offered to them after graduating from school.
How about you..have you ever had big dreams, or deep desires that you nurtured and worked toward, that somehow came true?
I was reflecting on this when I went to Mass this morning...where our new church is finally rising from the ground after eighteen years of building with other families on a shared dream of raising our children in a loving community of faith.
Of faith in what or in Who?
St. Paul addressed this very question when he stood on the great rock at the Acropolis in Athens. He addressed the people of that time and place (and through the scripture and tradition of the Church, each one of us today:)
"You Athenians, I see that in every respect you are very religious. For as I walked around looking carefully at your shrines, I even discovered an altar inscribed, 'To an Unknown God.'
What therefore you unknowingly worship, I proclaim to you.
The God who made the world and all that is in it, the Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in sanctuaries made by human hands, nor is he served by human hands because he needs anything.
Rather it is he who gives to everyone life and breath and everything.
He made from one the whole human race to dwell on the entire surface of the earth, and he fixed the ordered seasons and the boundaries of their regions,
so that people might seek God, even perhaps grope for him and find him, though indeed he is not far from any one of us." (Acts 17: 22-27)
Truly our little Evie is my family's latest dream come true, and I thank God for her perfection each and every day.
Love,
Ronda
Location:Lylebourne Ct,Apex,United States
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