College Roll Call
Posted by Lisa Hendey in Family on Wednesday, August 18, 2010 12:13 PM
I’ve been majorly preoccupied the past few days with the launching of my son Eric off to college. I’ll be sure to continue to share insights on that during the next few days here on the blog - we leave tonight to drive to San Francisco. Early tomorrow morning, we’ll put Eric on a plane to Boston, where he’ll be attending pre-orientation at Harvard. Then next Tuesday, Greg and I will fly out to help him move into his dorm room. Stay tuned for more on those developments.
One of the things that has helped me feel more comfortable with sending my kid thousands of miles away are the number of very kind folks living in the vicinity of Cambridge who have offered to be of support to Eric if he has any need for help. It’s unlikely that we’ll call on them, but it’s great to know that we have people who care and who would “be there” in the event of an emergency. Another happy coincidence happened recently when my good friend Pat Gohn shared the name of a student she knows who will be attending Harvard. Pat’s friend comes from a great family and she’s another strongly Catholic student heading into an environment that could be challenging. God is good and is watching over us - Eric and this student became Facebook friends, and now have learned that they will be living in the same dorm and probably sharing a major. They’ve never met, but I’m happy that this young lady will be one of the first friends he finds in his new home. All thanks to Pat’s mention of knowing someone who will be at the same university.
I know many of you are sending your children to college - I thought it would be fun for anyone who’s doing so to list their student’s school (please don’t list children’s full names for security reasons) and then for those of us living near the colleges, maybe we can connect via email or here on the site to offer support and prayers. I’d love for each of our future college students to have a whole army of Catholic moms praying for them as they begin this next phase of life. So if you have a college student in your home, please list their first name and if you’d like to list their school too that would be great. If you’re more comfortable not listing the school, just give us a name any know we’ll be praying for them.
For anyone who’d like to “adopt” a student to pray for, please leave a comment here or simply keep these young men and women in your prayers. And if you have a close family friend, neice, nephew, cousin or fellow parishioner you’d like to list feel free to add them too. Let’s make this big - I’d love to have our entire online “virtual church” covering the future leaders of our church in prayer!
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