Dear Lord, the life you have given us has many stages. Please bless these young people today, as they leave one state of life and begin another. Guide them as they finish this chapter in the story you have written for them, and begin a new one, written on a fresh page. Help them to make the right choices, Lord. May they always remember that past choices need not sully a bright future, nor good choices in the past ensure that tomorrow will be carefree and easy. Most of all, remind them, Lord, that no one’s story is fully lived unless you are allowed to be its one, true author by those who live it. Amen