Students play and sing praise music for the Chapel’s weekly “Celebrate!” service.
Maybe you’ve played the team-building game where you stand in a circle of people, blindfolded and then, completely stiff, you lean — forward, backward, sideways — trusting that your circle of teammates will catch you and push you back up to where you can stand. It can be a little freaky if you don’t know the people on your team. We’re not used to having relative strangers touch us. Will they catch you? Can you trust them?
In some ways, your first days and weeks of college will be a little like that. It will be a completely new experience. Maybe you’ll know your roommate, maybe not. You won’t know your professors, that’s for sure. But you’ll have to go to meet them. You have to go to class, even if the first days make you uncomfortable.
Nobody’s going to make you come to the Chapel. No one’s going to come by and check to see if you’re dressed and ready for church on Sunday morning.
Showing up at the Chapel for Morning Prayer and Celebrate!, for Candlelight or Sunday worship are risks that you’re going to have to take on your own. But when you do, you’ll find you’ve got a whole new scene of people — students and professors — who are waiting to make you feel like you belong. We’ll even catch you when you fall. We fall ourselves sometimes. So take the risk; we’re looking forward to meeting you.
