From the Chaplains
Thoughts on Farewell for Year 12 Girls 2020
As we enter into Week 10 of our term during the Sydney lockdown, we come to the place where we bid farewell to our Year 12 students. Words can never express how I feel during this time and I can only imagine what parents and families are experiencing as they bid adieu to the final year of schooling for their children without the so called ‘normal’ ways of farewelling.
In the words of Antonio Machado (Spanish poet 26 July 1875 – 22 Feb 1939):
Wanderer, your footsteps are the road and nothing more; wanderer there is no road, the road is made by walking. By walking one makes the road, and upon glancing behind one sees the path that never will be trod again.”
We pray God’s continued blessing upon all our Year 12 students as they experience this time like no other, of graduating from school during a pandemic. We will miss the face-to-face time we couldn’t have with them, but as my approach to life is about being positive, we are thankful for every encounter we have had.
I give thanks for their joyful singing of Shine Jesus Shine as if there was no other anthem truer than the one they clapped their hands to in Chapel. I give thanks for their willingness to always work with the opportunities given and be present in the moment of that which needed to be attended to.
And so, in the name of the One who is the path and the bringer of all good things, may it go well with you dear Year 12 girls of 2020. May you see light clearly in service to God and others and therefore find perfect freedom, as the College Prayer teaches us, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Have a safe and enjoyable break everyone with your families!
Blessings and love
Rev Bent
Reverend Punam Bent