The School Year and the Church Year
I dropped off my children for the first day of school today. This year I have a daughter in 3rd grade, and a daughter in Kindergarten. But I can't talk about that or I might cry.
The elementary school was electric with energy as I walked my youngest to her class. Teachers were excited, kids were running around, some people looked lost too! I could tell the teachers were looking forward to a new year, and the kids were too. I grew up with a father for a teacher, a principal actually, so I'm familiar with the excitement. The school year starts off strong and follows a predictable schedule. Fall Break, Thanksgiving, Christmas break, and on into the spring semester. But more than anything, a school year is pushing towards a goal. A qualifiable, tangible goal: to teach children and move them on to the next grade. I know teachers do much more than that, but that simplifies it. And even beyond the goal, a school year has an end in sight. There's a beginning of the yea…
The elementary school was electric with energy as I walked my youngest to her class. Teachers were excited, kids were running around, some people looked lost too! I could tell the teachers were looking forward to a new year, and the kids were too. I grew up with a father for a teacher, a principal actually, so I'm familiar with the excitement. The school year starts off strong and follows a predictable schedule. Fall Break, Thanksgiving, Christmas break, and on into the spring semester. But more than anything, a school year is pushing towards a goal. A qualifiable, tangible goal: to teach children and move them on to the next grade. I know teachers do much more than that, but that simplifies it. And even beyond the goal, a school year has an end in sight. There's a beginning of the yea…