the gift of Education and the Intellect

Fr. Michael J. Himes

“ if you think of our education as a gift given you to be grasped, as something that you’ve achieved and will hold onto, if you think of your education as a training to make more money or get a better job, if you think that your education is all about your success in being able to provide for yourself and your family, all of which are great and wonderful goods, but if you think that’s what’s central to your education, then I must say that I think you’re unworthy of your education. The reason to be educated is to teach somebody else. You’ve never fully

HOW OR WHERE DO YOU SEE GOD?

g rasped the fruits of your education until you give it away to another. The measure of the success of your education is the measure to which people who never got to come to Boston College, the measure to which their lives are richer, fuller, more genuinely human because you did go to Boston College; that it’s enabling you to give something to others. And in that process, for the first time, you will fully possess it. You never own what you don’t give away. And what you do give away you can never lose.” ■

Over the past few years, following the release of the children’s book Drawing God, the C21 Center has had the opportunity to connect with thousands of kids across the country and around the world about how they imagine God. What does God look like? What does God feel like? Who is God? These are big questions for all of us, but the words, drawings, and imagination of these children are a powerful reminder of how we all see God differently. On the C21 Center website, we share some of their visions and interpretations with you, knowing their contagious faith can inspire us all.

To learn more about the book, World Drawing God Day each November, and the virtual museum, visit: www.drawing-god.com

John T. Grosso