Preacher's Piece

Graduation season is upon us. Time to spread your wings and fly. The world is waiting. There is great anticipation in the air as the new graduates put their hands to the plow and don’t look back. It’s that time of year when the invitations arrive in the mail and we start planning to attend the graduation parties. We get a lot of pleasure out of attending those events.

When I graduated from high school, my parents invited the relatives and a few close friends over to the house after the ceremony for cake and ice cream. We visited for a couple of hours then everyone went home. I remember the sum...