Well it’s over. The school year has ended.
The year began at Hosanna Lutheran Church and Little Palms Preschool last August, with excited children and some teary-eyed parents on their very first day of school. On that first day of school, our preschool staff and pastors all greet the parents and welcome the children. We reassure them they are in good hands. We will teach them and take care of them. They will grow, flourish and learn all kinds of new things.
Then, I watch a number of those parents sit in their cars and shed a few tears as they suffer separation anxiety. The kids quickly get into games and learn the names of new friends. They have a ball.
The parents, however, are out there slowly sliding into a new season in their lives. Toddlers are now school kids. Homes are quiet. They drive home, or off to work, with a new schedule. Now, they have to worry about school calendars, fall break and special events.
That school year came and went. We kept our promise. Parents entrusted their greatest treasures to us, and we taught their kids all kinds of new things in preschool. We watched those kids grow in size, in wisdom and in compassion for those new friends. We saw them grow in faith. And it’s a new season again.
Many are moving on to kindergarten next year. We will have a whole new student body, with new friends and young parents entering that new season in their lives, too.
Come and enroll your child soon. The classes are almost filled up already.
If you find yourself moving into a new season in life, a new job, new relationship, getting married, the first child or the last child being born… If you find yourself in a season of grief from a loss, or a season of joy on graduation day… Whatever that new season into which you are moving, I want you to know that God is still with you.
He is opening new doors, guiding our paths, and giving us strength and wisdom. He reminds us often of just what He has promised you: I will never leave you. I will not forsake you. I am with you always, to the very end of the age.
Join us this summer for our 9:30 a.m. Sunday services. And let’s enter this new season together. Hosanna Lutheran Church is located at 9601 E. Brown Road. Visit our website at hosanna-lcms.com.