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After telling us people don’t care about essays from young journalists, Dr. Les Sillars of Patrick Henry
College assigned us to write some. With powerful excerpts from Augustine, Mark Twain, G.K. Chesterton,
and Whitaker Chambers still ringing in our ears, the assignment sounded a little daunting.
We had 45 minutes to write a 200-word essay—on anything. We scattered around campus with laptops and
notebooks, under trees or out in the sunshine.
I looked at the whirligigs spinning from the trees around me and decided to write about them. I thought
how much like them all of us were here at WJI—whirled around in the hustle of interviews, editing, and
last-minute assignments. The little whirligigs landed right side up, though, and so would we. Like the seeds
they held, God’s purposes for our live anchor and guide us with beautiful promises for the future.
We gathered back together in the lecture hall, where each of us got up, faced the amphitheater of faces, and
read our essays aloud from the podium. There was a short time for comments after each one, and then it
was the next person’s turn. We all laughed, and some of us teared up. Our essays were as different as we
were are, but the honesty and beauty amazed me.
I think, since then, we’ve seen each other differently. Man looks on the outward appearance, but God looks
on the heart. (1 Samuel 16:7) When we shared our hearts, we came one step closer to seeing each
other—and loving each other—like God does.
- Olivia Hajicek
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Hannah More: Story-teller, truth-teller, world-changer by Olivia Hajicek
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