Our lives are full of stories. Funny stories and sad stories. Redemptive stories
and tragic stories. Compelling stories and boring stories. Helpful and
destructive. Joyful and despairing. Good and bad. Light and
dark.
Our many individual stories weave
together to create the story of our life. In many ways we write our own story
through decisions, impulses and actions that we make each day. In many more
ways, the story of our life is written for us. Many of the threads of our
stories are interwoven with the stories of others. Parents, relatives, friends,
teachers, co-workers, etc. Each person we meet plays a part in our story. Our
stories are complex, to say the least.
On Thursday and Friday of this
week, our teaching staff will be attending an EDIFIDE conference. The theme for
the conference is "Entering the Story'.
As educators,
we live in the space where our own personal stories intersect with the stories
of our students, their families, our school community and the community in which
we live. We tell our stories in part to multiply joys and divide sorrows. We
seek to be part of God's story - one where he is calling us to be part of his
perfect plan for redemption.
-Shannon
Marcus, Chair, EDIFIDE Board of Directors
As a school and as a staff, we are
thankful that we are part of your family's story. It is our hope that all of our
students will recognize that they are part of a much larger redemptive story.
And may we "...fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfector of our faith."
-Hebrews 12:2
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