The Shaped Heart

 I feel for high school students who apply to a college. “What do they think of me?”  Too much of this can begin to shape a young person’s heart. So I try to be positive about young people, encouraging them to be who God made them to be. Trying to be who someone else wants you to be or you think they want you to be, can stifle one’s natural, but not yet developed gifts.  College is where you are supposed to flower. I was a terrible, non-conformist seminarian. A lot of it was immaturity, but I did discover gifts I did not know I had. I think it is why I relate well to young people.  Or at least they say, “You get us.”