Graduation Night

Last night I was given the distinct honor of being able to be the commencement speaker at Apostolic Christian Academy in Toledo, OH. Whenever I go to a graduation ceremony it automatically moves my thinking into the possibility and potential that every individual graduate has. I heard one person say once that potential in a person means nothing unless they actually become potent. What an incredible thought. Every event in our life marks to oppurtunity for a new potential, but how much of that potential is never realized because we are afraid to either end something or begin something. At the graduation last evening every graduate was ready to end there primary education and head to College. The Graduates understood that if they stayed in what was comfortable,and if they resided with where they were familiar, they would never realize their potential. It would require a step into a deeper education and an expanding of their world. It makes me wonder how many times we never realize our potential because we are afraid to end what we are familiar and comfortable with to take that step of faith into realize our potential. Every beginning first begins with an ending of something else.