Navigating Life’s Mountains and Valleys: Encouragement for the Graduating Class
President Michael Lindsay reflects on his first year as Taylor University president.
I was sitting on my friend’s couch with a group of people from church one evening, having a great discussion about what car we would own if we could own any in the world. In the middle of the conversation, I was suddenly overwhelmed by the realization, ‘I am in Ireland. I am friends with Irish people. I am living a normal life and having normal conversations, but in Ireland.’
Days when we had ample workers and the kitchens at Taylor were bursting with laughter and the cooks all wanted to be chefs. Days when we sat down for family meals after a hard day of work and shared our personal lives with our work family.
“March, march, many as one. Shoulder to Shoulder and friend to friend.” from “The March of the Women” by Ethel Smyth (1914)