We were created to live with God, to belong to God, in wholeness and fullness – without shame. This is who we were made to be: God’s very own.

That’s the thing to remember isn’t it. That’s worth a bit of a pause. That’s where, as Christians, our own commencement must always begin and end and begin again.

Ralph Wood, professor of theology and literature at Baylor, tells a story about being issued an invitation by a Baptist pastor-friend: Would Ralph accompany him to the local minimum-security prison for a baptism?