This past week we attended graduation exercises for our grandchildren. What a wonderful day for these young people. Their teachers are be commended on all the hard they put into this past year to educate our young people.
When we attend these graduations exercises we sometimes experience tears of joy and tears of sadness because of many memories that cross our minds. Some of us may be reminded of our own graduations, the love and sacrifice of our parents, teachers and grandparents made for us so many years ago. We often are taken back to the day we graduated and recall fondly those school days. We recall our own successes and achievements as well as our short comings and our failures.
We may also often remember those early school days of our children and we long for yesterday - When our children were small and all the joy those years bought to our home. Many of us have school pictures that reminded us of each grade they completed.
We know school and the education system is much different today than it was when we went to school, but the love we saw this past week of our teachers was very genuine and loving. Things have changed indeed. The education system has changed for the better and we just want to send bouquets of roses to each teacher in the education system because they are doing a great job.
We pray for all young people who graduated this year. It matters not if you graduated from kindergarten or high school or university- you have completed a year of education which no one can take from you.
As parents we may have to say good bye for a while as our children leave home to continue their education. Tears may again flow, but let the tears of sadness be few as we look ahead to new and wonderful experiences for our children. We have taught them what they need to know to move on in life. Now we trust they will recall the morals and values we passed on to them.
It is my prayer that God will grant us all a blessed summer. May our upcoming year be filled with success and achievements to fulfill all our dreams.
"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined." - Henry David Thoreau
Margaret Anne Yost nursed for 35 years. Returning back to school I completed classes from the Red River College in the areas of Gerontology, Bereavement, Death and Dying. For twelve years I worked in bereavement support at a funeral home.
At present I am employed as an Interim Parish Worker at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in Melville, Sask. I also enjoy my role as homemaker, wife, mother and grandmother.
