Well Done

Every year at this time I have such bittersweet feelings, as a hectic year comes to a close and graduates begin their transition away from Lynchburg College. I am both exhausted and excited, grieving and yet grateful. I turn to this short reflection every Commencement week because it resonates so much to my own experience. I’m not sure who wrote it but I’m guessing they worked at a place much like our own Hornet Hive and I hope their words speak to you as well:

For many of you, these weeks are filled with exciting exits for your grads and others,
leaving you sitting in your office or some quiet place
wondering how the year went by so fast and how you feel kind of lonely, a bit left out and likely real tired.

Well done, good and faithful and creative and talented and accountable and underpaid
and very much appreciated changers of lives
(even if some of those changed lives don’t stop by to tell you so).

Get some rest, grieve as needed, rejoice as able,
keep the faith, do the job, and ask for help.

Thank you to all LC students and staff, faculty and administration for your faithfulness to our community. Have a blessed and renewing summer!

Peace, Anne