Ten Year Reunion

Here's a post from a couple months ago that I saved and never got back to finishing up and publishing. I guess I was feeling pretty existential...
So I just discovered that my high school graduating class just had their ten year class reunion. The past few weeks I have had several old friends and acquaintances from high school contacting me on "myspace" and now it makes sense. Of course being in Washington State there was no way that I could have attended despite that fact that I didn't know about it. And its not really a big deal that I missed it but It just got me thinking about the last ten years and remembering that 17 year old boy in south Louisiana trying to figure out who he was and what his place in the world was though he didn't know it. In a sense I'm kind of in a place of mourning for him and the mistakes he made but more probably how i would have done things differently. The last decade or so has brought many changes to me and my life and my relationships, in how I view this world and the God who made it. I must say He(being God) has brought me a long way from where I was then and done some really hard work in the incantricies of my being how I weigh myself and others worth. I know there is much more to come though. A friend of mine once said "campus ministry is one of the few professions that you feel over the hill at 27" i must say being a 29 year old campus minister, I think that statement rings true at times. I wish all my fellow "95 classmates a good life, the joy of knowing the reason of their being, and knowing the One who formed them.