SEPTEMBER 2016
LEARNING, FAITH & LEADERSHIP A Kennedy Catholic Lancer Publication
COMMUNI-K PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE Create Something New Labor Day is always a sign to me that summer is officially over. The neighborhood pool is closed, the leaves on the trees are changing and the sun is setting earlier and earlier. Similarly, families pack up and head for the state park of their choice for a last shot at tents, campfires and smores. I went for a run through Dash Point State Park Labor Day and watched the exodus of visitors, many with expressions of sadness as the freedoms and memories created during the summer months are replaced with the soon to come ordinary, predictable and uneventful.
Mike Prato - President
Jesus teaches us to counteract those fears replacing them with a desire to do something new, innovative, and extraordinary; to sustain us in the winter months to come. For my wife and me, that is a daily walk with conversation. For our two daughters, it is taking risks at school with leadership opportunities. For our school community, it is forming intentional prayer partners with focused mentoring and fellowship. Staff forming staff, students forming students; we know our work in Christ will be blessed with shared grace. In shared grace something extraordinary always occurs. Watch and see! My advice to those feeling forlorn? Do something new, innovative and extraordinary: rent snowshoes in the winter, take a hike with a picnic lunch, use a camera to document the adventure and always include a well-placed prayer for each other. Extraordinary events with God in your life will generate amazing memories that will sustain you.
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