Colleen is in southern California this week meeting with the other directors of Fuller from around the west. So just an hour or two before leaving for the airport she created this little ditty as a greeting from the soggy, coffee-laden Seattle office.
Imagine if you will a tree – tall and proud,
With Little Seminarians hugging it all ‘round
They have salmon in their lunch pails
And coffee in their veins
And they go outside and play
Even when it rains
And rain it does!
Day after day, month in and month out.
But let there not ever be even thoughts of a drought!
When they aren’t playing, camping and recycling things
The Little Seminarians are at work with their brains
Most have the Three M’s so school take a while
Ministry, mortgage and marriage already set on their dial.
They read Childs and Fee and even some Mouw
(Hagner, Murphey and Guder round out their large pile!)
They parse verbs, use endnote and proofread for hours
The Seminarians of Seattle are bundles of power!
By bike or by hybrid, they schlep off to school
In their fleece and their gortex and smart socks of wool.
With their books and their laptops and yes, thoughts of YOU!
Did you know your hard work reached way up North too?
Student loans, drop/adds, pass/fails and tuition
We all work together to bring dreams to fruition!
Lift an espresso in a little blue cup!
To the Little Seminarians on the map way way up.
For so many people study has long been a wish….
So celebrate success by eating a fish!
Rain bound Seattleites and Portlanders too
Are so very thankful to be part of the few
Who can study and stay in their soggy, green homes
With spouses and kids and even yard gnomes!
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