WHITE

I thought that it was snowing
Flowers, but no, it was this young lady
Coming towards me.

From the Japanese of Yori-Kito
(19th Century)


This morning S and I drove to Burlington for an informational session for Hofstra University. I, sneezing and dizzy, hid in a corner of the room while S took the initiative to ask questions of the representatives, both students and Deans. Their presentation was not as elaborate or as polished as the one we went to last time for the University of Hartford. But this seems to be S’s new first choice. They told him he could continue his music without actually being a music major, and he likes the fact that it is just outside Manhattan. I am hoping that he will have a positive and memorable college experience, that he will get a well rounded education, that he will broaden his horizons, and that he will find a group of sincere, Christian young people who will encourage him to grow in faith. My prayer has always been that he will glorify God with his life and his life’s work; that Christ might live in him, that he might be compassionate, gracious and filled with the hope of the knowledge of God both in adversity and in abundance.