To the Class of 2022: An Open Letter
By Kenneth R. Jenkins
Fellow graduates of the Class of 2022, as you know the time has come now to tell you are going to embarked upon new challenges that will be before you a future anew, a whole new world that is opened to you.
This life’s journey already been challenging the least but count it all joy. The weight of this life’s struggles will get heavy but count it all joy. Remember, that the joy of the Lord is very much your strenght, let Him be that strenght you need.
Just think, your dreams and desires will go beyond of what your parents and grandparents have because you have more of an opportunity, a head start, than they ever dreamed of; but you have to take that journey of those opportunities that looks you in the face waiting in the wings and ready to take that flight to that unknown and uncertain future and take it.
Let me if you will, pass along some wisdom that may guide you to that next journey:
TRUST IN GOD… Proverbs 3:5 Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. Trust seems to be one of the things that do not come easy when there’s a world around us seeming unsafe and secure. With all that’s going all around us with gun shootings in malls, schools, churches, Synagogues and Masques. The growing deaths of a virus that’s killing people one at a time. An unrest lingering all around us. In spite of these things and more, we can still trust God and rest in His care. Trust God in everything or fall reaching towards nothing.
DO YOUR BEST…. When you tried and tried and it seems like it’s not going well, DO YOUR BEST! Show those professors and instructors what you can do but make sure you know you did your best.
Keep God in the forefront of your lives, not looking back of those things that will keep you from moving forward.
My prayer is success in everything your hands to do.
Kenneth R. Jenkins is a freelance writer, poet, podcast host/producer, minister, husband living in Savannah, GA.
