Around this time of the school year there is a sense of moving towards exams and although everything we have done up this point has been leading to this, I feel it is only now for some it becomes a reality. As you can imagine pupils react differently, some really start to focus and push towards it, some carry on a steady pace as they have done all year and some struggle with the pressure. Not all have the resilience to make it happen.
I feel at this point the weight of both privilege and responsibility, as teachers we know what it takes to get through the next stage and it requires trust placed in us, the trust that we know what we are doing and that although the work is hard and demanding, we are almost at the top of the hill and we will support our students throughout. But it is hard.
This morning's reading very much reminded me of this situation. Jesus has been walking with the people, healing and teaching and while it was in their comfort zone they followed. But now its getting hard, hard to understand what he means, hard to see where it is leading and just a little bit costly. So they start to grumble and some fall away.
I can certainly think on times when my journey has felt like that, and that is the point where we need to choose, do we follow, do we trust and keep going like some of the disciples, who put it so simply "Where else would we go?" or do we grumble, shake our heads and go back to our old life. It is always our choice.
God knows we struggle but he asks us to trust him, to stay with him even when we don't understand because in the end we will see and it will be worth it.
I feel at this point the weight of both privilege and responsibility, as teachers we know what it takes to get through the next stage and it requires trust placed in us, the trust that we know what we are doing and that although the work is hard and demanding, we are almost at the top of the hill and we will support our students throughout. But it is hard.
This morning's reading very much reminded me of this situation. Jesus has been walking with the people, healing and teaching and while it was in their comfort zone they followed. But now its getting hard, hard to understand what he means, hard to see where it is leading and just a little bit costly. So they start to grumble and some fall away.
I can certainly think on times when my journey has felt like that, and that is the point where we need to choose, do we follow, do we trust and keep going like some of the disciples, who put it so simply "Where else would we go?" or do we grumble, shake our heads and go back to our old life. It is always our choice.
God knows we struggle but he asks us to trust him, to stay with him even when we don't understand because in the end we will see and it will be worth it.
"On hearing it, many of his disciples said, “This is a hard teaching. Who can accept it?Aware that his disciples were grumbling about this, Jesus said to them, “Does this offend you? Then what if you see the Son of Man ascend to where he was before! The Spirit gives life; the flesh counts for nothing. The words I have spoken to you—they are full of the Spirit[e] and life. Yet there are some of you who do not believe.” For Jesus had known from the beginning which of them did not believe and who would betray him. He went on to say, “This is why I told you that no one can come to me unless the Father has enabled them.”
From this time many of his disciples turned back and no longer followed him.”
John 6 vs 60-66
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