Jesus, I feel like there’s been so much, but when I’ve finally come to you I have nothing to say. But maybe that’s a good thing. The other day, after Keelan’s college graduation, I was waiting around Davidson for her to be ready to leave and took a walk in the woods. I sat in prayer and just listened.
Prayer Journal, May 21, 2019
Davidson gave us this ‘diploma’ as a gift and framed it for us.
It reads:
To all who the present document comes:
Perpetual greeting in the Lord
By this document we declare that
Isaac Ian Scharbach
should be held in honor
both for his progress toward the Bechelor of Arts Degree
as well as for the may and great services he has rendered (the college) us.
In Witness of which action we have affixed our signatures and the seal of this college
President Carol Quillen
Byron McCrae, Dean of Students
Angie Dewberry, Registrar
Keelan was two years ahead of Isaac at Davidson. Isaac would have graduated last week.
Read previous offerings
Journal entries written on hearts
“If you give me anything, let me love Jesus.”
“I am your servant” — painting the Baptism of Christ
Help me to withhold nothing (“Teach me to be a great saint”)
Ready to receive you (an Advent prayer)
“An intense desire.” A longing to depart from this fallen world.
“Why are you afraid?” Isaac’s final journal entry
“Moved to tears: the meaning behind Isaac’s gravestone”
“The reward of distracted prayer” (November 27th)
“The end of all beauties” (November 21s
“Memento mori” (November 18th)
“Root out my sin” (November 15th)
“Let me suffer” (November 12th)
Why the title? About the Offerings of Isaac