What I Learned From Slippery Rock University or Happy Birthday Greg McAtee!

What I Learned From Slippery Rock University or Happy Birthday Greg McAtee!

 I’m taking this course now about Christian Spiritual Formation, but I have to go on record as saying that I learned a  lot about my relationship with God at Slippery Rock. I don’t think I learned a lot of English or How to Teach Reading. But I did learn how people who love God live in community. 

I learned that my Christian friends are also my brothers and sisters. I learned the basics of how to communicate, how to love them, and how to be loyal.  

I graduated from college in 1979, but a lot of my approach to the Bible has never changed. I still read it as if God is writing a love letter to me. I learned that sitting on the floor in Conrad’s living room listening to him talk at Friday night Bible studies. 

I guess college is a formative time for everybody. I’m glad God started to form my spiritual walk back then.

I laugh when I think back to parties in my apartment in the Track House where it was so cold we passed out blankest and sweaters to party goers.  I laugh when I think how we tried to teach Greg to cook. I remember us girls decorated a table top Christmas tree with our earrings.   

I really had some pretty cool friends:  Becky and Sue, and Ruth and Pete and Chuck, and Katie and Micheal, and Anita and Greg whose birthday is today.  

 I haven’t kept in contact with most of them. It didn’t seem necessary to write down their addresses, I couldn’t imagine living without them. So now, 40 or so years later, I don’t know where they are but I am grateful for all the learning that happened with them.   

And it seemed right to get all sentimental about SRSC, now on Greg’s birthday. So happy birthday to me and Anita and Becky and Greg, all of us in February.  Thanks, for everything I learned about community from you guys. I still use it today.