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i can't make you love me

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Dear NAU Applicant,

Please complete the required essay questions below. Please limit your answers to one to two pages per question with a font size of 12.

You may email your essays to MBA@nau.edu as a MS Word attachment or mail to the address below.

(1.) How will an MBA help you to attain your short-term career goals?

I'm not sure.

Mostly because my short-term career goals are vast. So vast and so eternal and so joyous that I can’t begin to craft some kind of summation of them for you.

If you have ever known that the Creator of the universe and your first and only Father has reached through the bleeding and swirling ether of time and fragile reality to touch your heart with one fingertip and say to you, You are created. You are designed to love and be loved; then I don't need to explain further.

If he has filled your head with the way that the air feels and smells in the fall, if he has spoken to you that you are lovely, lovely, if he has laughed out loud for joy and you felt the vibration in the core of your being, then there isn’t any need for me to convince you that I have a destiny that I was created for, a place that only I can fill and sustain.

We both know that there is nothing interesting about offices or filing systems or those horrible stamps that stain your fingertips. We were created for raw existence, for extreme worship, for communion deeper even than sex. There are deep mysteries here for us to explore and delight in. There is Life, even though everyone you know will try to convince you that it’s only something you read about.

I want to tell you what He has for me, but just the thought of it is so precious that if I wrote it out on paper my heart would spill out along with it. It is for this reason that I cannot complete this essay, but I wanted you to know that God has already written it for both of us. Be delighted in and know that you are loved.

Very sincerely,

A sister