text: The next time the feeling of worthlessness presents itself, consider the reach and the breadth of the essay you just gave us.  And consider the courage, risk, service, and love attendant to it. Oh, and consider the life-changing impact. Other than that...
  
  You bring both worth AND value to the discussion. Your last paragraph says more than many volumes of theology, many sermons, many counseling sessions, and many lengthy prayers. 
  
  Yes, there will be those (sadly, there ARE those--read the Newman Society stuff) who'll lament "that's what Georgetown is: a so-called-Catholic, 'love myself,' God's love is unconditional, secular, touchy-feely Jesuit remnant of the '60s. "
  
  Hannah, you show us why in 2017 GU is a great Catholic university AND a Catholic great university. Love can't be earned--you are so right. But respect and admiration can be. You just showed us that. 
  
  "Profoundly rooted in the gospel and in Ignatian spirituality"------now THAT'S elite higher education.