I have a love/hate relationship with May. I think as a teacher you naturally get a bit of an endorphin rush at the end of May. We breath a sigh of relief as we pump our fists in the year and yell, “We made it!!” For better or worse, the year is over and we can take a collective breath and regroup for the next one.
In that way, I love May. But May for us is bittersweet. May is when we say good-bye to some of the amazing kids we have walked alongside and done life with. I’m being honest when I say our whole school grieves a little. We’ll miss seeing Abbie, always on the stoop, knitting, pausing to smile and talk to the elementary kids. We’ll miss Isaac and his after school judo lessons and sparkly suit jackets at STUCO events. We’ll miss Nina, super cool driving into school on her motorcycle, the last of 4 siblings to sit in our classrooms.
And yet, we celebrate seeing their excitement as they get ready to step into their new roles ahead. We see our joy made complete as we watch another group of beautiful souls walk across that stage, successful. As a school, we pray we have rooted them deep in the faith of their Father and prepared them to go forward. Will you join us in praying for them?
Pray for Isaac as he studies International Business in Mississippi. Pray for his family as they send their youngest son off to school and become empty-nesters.
Pray for Abbie as she studies Nursing in Indiana. She is the first of six kids to head to college. Pray for her siblings who are going to miss her.
Pray for Nina who is headed home to Switzerland to also study Nursing.
Pray for her brother Josia and, another SAM Academy alumni, Daniella, who will also be in Switzerland this summer, getting married and starting their lives together!
…And pray with us, prayers of praise for an AMAZING school year! I may jinx it because we still have 5 days left, but we are so thankful that God blessed us with an incredibly peaceful and beautiful school year.
Just five more days and we can say, “We did it!”
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