I was just in Ecuador for a short week at the Covenant Bible College outside of Quito. I spoke at the commencement on “Love the Questions, Live on the Line,” and I’ll write more on my thoughts and experiences from that – but it was great to reflect with students who are (mostly) just starting college, leaving home, being open to where God is leading them, re-assessing who they are really called to be, what the church could really look like, who they are made to be… Such great questions to think about.
But first, here’s a quote from a much larger figure who spoke to a group of students a few years ago.
In 1966, thirty long years before the fall of Apartheid, South African students heard Robert Kennedy proclaim:
“Some believe there is nothing one man or one woman can do against the enormous array of the world’s ills. Yet many of the world’s great movements of thought and action have flowed from the work of a single person… It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a person stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he or she sends forth a tiny ripple of hope. And crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.”