Dear Families,
When I think of the word commencement, I often connect it with an ending or a conclusion. Fitting perhaps, as it naturally follows course– when we end one thing, we commence another. We begin. Yesterday, we graduated our “Sweet 16” Class of 2025, and our Honorary Graduate, Miss Frances McKamey. For the kids, this begins the next phase of their lives as servant leaders, bridge builders and people of tomorrow, for Miss McKamey, she prepares to commence into her retirement.
Beginnings are often scary, met with unknowns and uncertainty. Often I find that the middle part goes by in a blink of an eye, and if we aren’t intentional, we can miss it, or forget that it’s something to be cherished. It is at the end though, that we often look back, rather than ahead, about all that we experienced, loved, valued and learned. Endings are beautiful, challenging, bittersweet, joyful, and can also be sad. But I believe that if we’ve lived the middle part to the fullest, endings are usually met with the confidence that we are ready— that it is time.
Our kids are prepared from preschool on, to go off and do amazing things. They learn to be pillars in the community, and live by ours as well (serve, learn, lead, and pray). In the 8th grade Culminating Projects,…Continue Reading
