Into the Future: A Sermon for Baccalaureate Sunday [Isaiah 55:10-13 - Proper 10A]
The Rev. Jeremiah Williamson Isaiah 55:10-13 Into the Future: A Sermon for Baccalaureate Sunday My first college campus visit did not go as I had hoped. Five hundred miles away from home, amidst the cornfields of Illinois, my parents turned our van right at the town’s one and only stop light. And after a long day of travel across some very flat states, we arrived on campus. I was seventeen and I was nervous. While my parents lodged in the cozy bliss of the Super 8 that weekend, I stayed with Dan. Dan had a thick mane of red hair and a brilliant mathematical mind. He was less adept socially. Not long after we met, he took me to his dorm room. And he left me there alone. He explained that he had plans that evening with his friends. And rather than invite me to join him, he invited me to spend a quiet evening in his room, by myself. And while that does sound sad, it turns out that was not the...