Our lives are shaped by calendars. The school calendar may be one of the most significant shapers in family life. Homeschool, private school, and public school all have a calendar with an annual beginning and end. An end of the school year can be mixed bag. Pride and grief. Excitement and sadness. New beginnings and a past full of memories. With a high school graduation, an eighth grade promotion, and a fifth grade promotion all next week; I'm feeling the weight of it all. Maybe you are too. Maybe it's graduate school for your household. Or a last year in your area before a big move. Listen in a give yourself permission to grieve. Grief can give life. It invites us to live in the present while we hold the future with open hands. Whatever your end of the school year brings, may you embrace it. Let it do it's work, so you can embrace all that is coming after the end of the school year.
