Elizabeth Boone McLean

My first semester at PTS (fall 1988), I turned in my first OT paper. A couple of days later, he handed it back to me and said, “You would never have turned this in at Davidson. Go rewrite it and then I will grade it.”

He was absolutely correct. I’d dashed off some drivel and turned it in. I hadn’t given it the thought and energy the paper deserved. I rewrote it and have never again turned in something I dashed off.

I have no idea what the paper was about or what grade i got. I do remember the lesson he really wanted me to learn: scripture deserves my best because God desires my best.

I give thanks for his witness and care. He was an incredible gift to our world.

Praying for you and your family.

Elizabeth Boone McLean
Pastor, 1st Presbyterian Church
Austin, TX