A reflection for teachers returning to school
Read Matthew 14 22 - 33
We are walking on the waters of COVID
Stepping into a sea of uncertainty
Hoping to find our feet in a new term
We are leaving lockdown's limbo
To walk alongside the young
Through a sea of change
Curriculum changes threaten
Bubbles drift down corridors
Relief and anxiety are masked
Don't look down to the swirling questions
Look up instead, into the faces of colleagues and pupils
Be grateful to be with them through this time of change
Because you are alive.....
Living the mystery that there is no real growth without disruption
Learning to trust the waters of change that will swirl through this term
Let your trust in others goodness grow this year
Because that goodness is stronger than any change
Rely on loving kindness to smooth the waves of uncertainty
Like St Peter, reach out your hand
to that deeper spirit that called you
to the vocation of teaching.