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Morning Prayer
Jun. 1st, 2004 11:25 pmWell, I couldn't find a prayer I liked for tomorrow and, needing to write something, I came up with my own. Which is good, because the book I had been using was running out of good ones.
Endings
Here I stand amid the rush of the last days of school. I find myself searching for time to complete all that needs to be completed. I find that I am fighting a losing battle to keep young minds focused when they are counting down the hours just as faithfully as I am. In an effort to remain focused, every task becomes a "last task" -- The last of the homework needs to be handed in and handed back. The last of the tests need to be given and taken. The last Monday needs to be faced. The last Friday needs to be celebrated. The last class needs to be held.
Checklists to the end.
There is a finality in the air that sings through the halls: an excited, mournful chorus of final days, final grades, final farewells.
But, yet, these last days of school, are also first days of summer. School is ending, but vacation is beginning. We draw a line and say: This, this is end of school, but following that line is the beginning of something new. For the students, one grade is ending, but the next is beginning. For teachers, one class may be finished but another waits in the wings. I look and say "end" when I could just as well say "beginning". Yes, there are things that need to be done. And yes, there are things that will never be again. But there will also be new things that were never there before. New tasks that need to be planned for.
The Lord said "I am the alpha and the omega, the beginning and the ending". May I take courage in knowing that whether I chose to see it as an ending or a beginning, God will be there.
Endings
Here I stand amid the rush of the last days of school. I find myself searching for time to complete all that needs to be completed. I find that I am fighting a losing battle to keep young minds focused when they are counting down the hours just as faithfully as I am. In an effort to remain focused, every task becomes a "last task" -- The last of the homework needs to be handed in and handed back. The last of the tests need to be given and taken. The last Monday needs to be faced. The last Friday needs to be celebrated. The last class needs to be held.
Checklists to the end.
There is a finality in the air that sings through the halls: an excited, mournful chorus of final days, final grades, final farewells.
But, yet, these last days of school, are also first days of summer. School is ending, but vacation is beginning. We draw a line and say: This, this is end of school, but following that line is the beginning of something new. For the students, one grade is ending, but the next is beginning. For teachers, one class may be finished but another waits in the wings. I look and say "end" when I could just as well say "beginning". Yes, there are things that need to be done. And yes, there are things that will never be again. But there will also be new things that were never there before. New tasks that need to be planned for.
The Lord said "I am the alpha and the omega, the beginning and the ending". May I take courage in knowing that whether I chose to see it as an ending or a beginning, God will be there.
