At this time of year I always find myself walking around the school with deep and abiding gratitude.
First of all, I am filled with gratitude for the amazing skill, the phenomenal hard work and the beautiful hearts of the educators who surround our children. I wish you could see the engagement, the substance and the joy I see as I walk around the Academy. It delights me to watch our mutual charges grappling with ideas that lift their hearts and minds to new levels of thinking, understanding or awareness – whether the conversation is about rhyming words, algebraic expressions, electrical circuits or God’s great love for us! I also wish you could be a fly on the wall and hear the gentle re-directions and the lofty invitations our teachers provide, always lovingly leading our children to growth in goodness, grace and God.
Secondly, I am filled with gratitude for the amazing generosity of YOU, our Academy parents. At the end of a full day at the office, I see you here helping us in a multitude of ways: cutting tablecloths in preparation for the table set-up, making signs, counting raffle tickets, creating items for the Market Place! Others of you are here during the day, generously giving of your time. And, I am CONSTANTLY AWED! I know that in addition to your own work and then helping out here, you still go home, put dinner on the table, ensure children are fed, follow-up to see that homework is accomplished, teeth are brushed and bed-time routines are accomplished. YOU truly awe me!
My heart is overflowing MOST OF ALL because at the bottom of all our collective hard work is the intention to DO exactly what we hope we are educating our children to: to know (experience) God’s Love, to develop one’s God-given gifts and to inspire them to BE God’s Goodness in the world!
Thank YOU, for being God’s Goodness here in this place where God’s Love is Alive in YOUR generous hearts and hands!
With deep and abiding gratitude,
Maureen Glavin, rscj
