Welcome back….almost! While it is busy as can be at school now, we long for all of the parents and students to return. It always amazes me when I see the students for the first time after summer vacation. There are always new faces and then there are also old faces that have changed so much. Some teenagers seem to grow a foot over the summer. It is amazing! This truth about individual students reminds us . . . .
This truth about individual students reminds us that life and growth go together. This year is exciting and challenging. God will call on us to rise to many occasions and to meet many challenges. Will we be able to? Will we be ready?
While I do not know all that will happen, I do know that we (as a school and as individuals) can only accomplish God’s will by relying on the power of Christ. We serve a Lord who has overcome death. He calls on us to follow Him and to do so bearing a cross pouring out ourselves for each other. As we become living sacrifices, we find that He is with us guiding and leading us binding us to each other in love. That challenge—becoming Christlike, living sacrifices—is the largest one that we will face this year. I pray that this year we will (like that gangly eighth grader who finds himself four inches taller he was in May) meet the challenge of growth by welcoming new students and families into our school community, looking for opportunities to love and serve each other and by learning to rely on Christ in all things.
