Principal's Message T4 W6 2022
Birthdays
So, this week
is my mum’s birthday. It is also Martin
Luther’s birthday, although he shuffled off this mortal coil 500 years ago, my
mum is still fighting fit.
I think birthdays are great. I am not a great gift giver, not because I am stingy, quite the opposite I love to be generous, but because I am hopeless at remembering birthdays until it is too late to organise a present.
Of course, at
school birthdays are a big deal. One of
the things that families learn really quickly upon starting Prep is the
birthday party scene. It flows well into
Primary School and follows on into Secondary School, usually culminating with
the big 18th with all your school mates either in Year 12 or there
abouts shortly after. We come together
to celebrate, to share, to give.
So, as I
organise another bunch of flowers to be delivered to my mum in Dubbo, and
consider the life and works of Martin Luther, who shares the same birthday, my
mind wanders of course to the big one that is coming up soon once again.
Here at Faith we are starting to hang our Christmas stuff up already too. Because we close in early December for the year, we miss out on the build up, on much of the celebration.
So now, in birthday season we start to think about Jesus birthday, to prepare ourselves to celebrate, to share, to give. Because He did.
Shane Altmann
Principal