The end and the beginning
I'm not really into this resolution business because:
1. I hardly keep them after the first few months anyway;
2. 1 Jan isn't a big deal anymore since I didn't take any time off in Dec and worked through the traditional holiday period, so it's just another week at the office instead of the start of a school term; and
3. As my sis put it, why wait for the New Year to decide that you want to make a positive change in your life?
But at Sunday School today, I saw the two boys whom I've been teaching since I first joined the ministry 5? 6? years ago graduate and join the Youth officially. It felt like the end of something, and the beginning of something. When we started out, they were half my height, scrappy little boys I could lift bodily when climbed atop a tall stack of chairs, and now one is bigger than me and will be playing rugby at ACS(B), where he's starting Sec 1. I pray that they will continue to grow in wisdom and in stature.
With their leaving come new kids into my class, and that's what made it feel like 2014 to me, more than any countdown business. It's an opportunity to start things afresh, to renew my covenant with God, to re-examine myself and what I've been doing with my life.
Happy new year.
1. I hardly keep them after the first few months anyway;
2. 1 Jan isn't a big deal anymore since I didn't take any time off in Dec and worked through the traditional holiday period, so it's just another week at the office instead of the start of a school term; and
3. As my sis put it, why wait for the New Year to decide that you want to make a positive change in your life?
But at Sunday School today, I saw the two boys whom I've been teaching since I first joined the ministry 5? 6? years ago graduate and join the Youth officially. It felt like the end of something, and the beginning of something. When we started out, they were half my height, scrappy little boys I could lift bodily when climbed atop a tall stack of chairs, and now one is bigger than me and will be playing rugby at ACS(B), where he's starting Sec 1. I pray that they will continue to grow in wisdom and in stature.
With their leaving come new kids into my class, and that's what made it feel like 2014 to me, more than any countdown business. It's an opportunity to start things afresh, to renew my covenant with God, to re-examine myself and what I've been doing with my life.
Happy new year.