Hello Y'all,
This is just a quick note as I am about to leave for the EFM graduation for the class I have mentored this last year. Last evening I was invited to coin in the graduation ceremonies for the class Jack Robertson mentors. It was a moing event. Jack had prepared a marvelous liturgy complete with the Litqany for Ordinations, a commissioning of the graduates as entrants into a new Ministry of Service, followed by a Eucharist and fabulous dinner. Bill McNulty, one of the grads was not there because he had to return to New Jersey for the summer, so we called him on the speaker phone and included him in our toasts and the reading of a essay he wrote about his EFM experience. It was an evening full of laughter and an few tears, but mostly it was filled with the presence of the Holy Spirit.

I am sure the ceremonies this afternoon for my class will also be a moving and rewarding experience for all. We are not having a liturgy, but it will be full of laughter and some touching moments also.

People who have not had the EFM experience cannot appreciate how deep the bonds are between the participants. ach class becomes a special community of seekers and sharers. (if that is a word).

It has beena pribilege for me to be a part of both classes. I have substituted as the mentor in Jack's class when he had to be away, as well as mentoring my own class. Plus everyone involved is a member of Good shepherd and being with them is a heart warming experience.

This evening Mike and I are invited to the wedding of one of my wife's' hearing impaired students. This young lady has completed not only high school but college as well, My wife taught her from the time she was about 6 years old and we have all watched her grown into a bright and beautiful young woman. I know if Scottie were here she would be beaming with joy and pride.
Most of her students wee multiply handicapped and improvements we small and and the goals they could set for them were very modest. But this young lady was, and is, brilliant. Her hearing loss is her only physical challenge, and watching her develop and grow was I think the most rewarding experience of her entire teaching career. I am thrilled to be invited to the wedding reception this evening and I know ow I will have a lump in my throat and a tear in my eye, wishing Scottie could be here.

Well, adios y'all for now. I gotta' run.

Glenn+