As I was sitting in the final Elem chapel for this school year, I remembered that Sam and Emma were with me for the first chapel of the year. That seems so long ago now but it wasn't really! And yet, we have crammed in another "year's" worth of school: learning, events, spiritual growth and fun. My daughter is heading into Grade 2 and my son into Kinder. Wow!
It was a good chapel - a recognition of Grade 5 as they head up to Middle School after the summer holiday and a recognition of the goodbyes we face as the year draws to a close.
I do have to say, though, that I hate hearing "last" right now. I don't want to think of things being last, I am quite happy to go on pretending life is going to continue as normal : ( But it won't and I guess that is a good thing. While reading the Screwtape Letters, I appreciated C.S.Lewis' thoughts on the Rhythm of life - "a union of change and permanence". Our life here fits very much into this idea - teaching each school year with similar curriculum, same place, same events, but different people every year. It is the same, yet new.
Something to hold on to as I head into a landscape that looks very different for next school year.
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Change is here to stay!
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