May 2016
Friends,
I recently had the chance to spend a day hiking with our outgoing student president, who will be graduating from Harvard Law School this coming week. After making our way to the top of our first 4,000-foot peak of the day, we stopped for lunch and ended up talking to some other hikers who had already reached the summit. They asked where we were headed, and when we replied that we were going to climb the peak behind us, they smiled and warned us that we had a rough journey ahead. They joked about the path being perpetually up and down. On top of that, the fact that the last bits of winter ice were starting to melt made for a slippery and precarious way. Undeterred, we climbed and slipped and tried to stay on our feet while talking about the past three years of law school and the joys of student ministry.
For the majority of students still on campus right now, this is the season of the law school climb that feels perpetually up. Several of our students are in the throes of the Harvard Law Review writing competition, a process that amounts to an all-encompassing and nonstop push in hopes of being a part of this incredibly prestigious and influential law journal. In witnessing the diligence and determination of these students at the beginning of each summer, I’m reminded of the tremendous pressures that will be placed on these students throughout their careers. In so many ways, our prayers are not only for this moment but also in view of the long path ahead. We pray for faithfulness, endurance, and unyielding hope. I ask you to join us in praying for these students as they make this final push.
In a similar way, with graduation this coming week, we are both deeply grateful for your prayers for these graduating students throughout the course of the past three years. We also hope you’ll continue to pray as these same students set out on their next journeys to cities across the U.S. to work in law firms and start clerkships. Please pray that their communities and workplaces would be marked by lives that are increasingly conformed to Christ throughout the mountaintops and valleys of professional life.
Grace and peace,
Jared Wortman
Christian Union Ministry Fellow
Harvard Law School
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