We Have Come Full Circle...

Dear Students...

To adapt some of Palmer's (2007) concluding words to our concluding class:

"...we [have] come full circle, to the place where this...[class] began: to the power within each of us that, in communion with powers beyond ourselves, co-creates the world—for better or worse. The poet Rumi says, 'If you are here unfaithfully with us,/you're causing terrible damage.'...

"But Rumi would surely agree that the converse is equally true. If you are here faithfully with us, you are bringing abundant blessing. It is a blessing known to generations of students whose lives have been transformed by people who had the courage to teach—the courage to teach from the most truthful places in the landscape of the self and world, the courage to invite students to discover, explore, and inhabit those places in the living of their own lives" (p. 190).

Thank you for being here faithfully each day. You have brought abundant blessing to our sacred space, and have demonstrated the courage to teach from your most truthful places. It has been a privilege to have been among you.

Gratefully,

Gini