Last week we had a Home and School evening where Sarah VanderGugten addressed parents and staff on her experiences with a Student Action Leadership Team. Our school community appreciated the opportunity to think about the potential for positive change that can come with times of school restructuring.
It was great to catch up with Sarah and hear how things are going in Langley.
Wilma has had lots of trouble with her back. After the last visit with the physiotherapist she is a bit more mobile but the pain and discomfort continues to be there. Sitting is just a bad thing. Ibuprophine helps a bit.
This morning Ian and I prepared a bacon and eggs breakfast on the new stove. The electric stove that came with the house gave out, that is, the oven controls quit working. We found a real good deal on a hardly used dual fuel stove. I’m happy to be back to a gas range, it just seems much more responsive and natural.
We attended a Good Friday service this morning and tonight we’ll join a dinner get-together with a number of friends. It is wonderful to contemplate the immensity of God’s love in the ultimate sacrifice Jesus made. The certainty of salvation lifts our spirits.
On Saturday and Monday we’ll do some regular clean up around the house now that more and more the snow is disappearing.
We found two serious ant nests behind the woodpile. It looks like the whole colony woke up as soon as the snow melted off their roof. It is amazing how quickly and beautifully things spring to life. The grass patches that were brown three days ago when they emerged from the snow are already turning green.
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For your interest, here follows the Good Friday entry I wrote for our school’s News Letter:
Good Friday
There was this old man, well past retirement. He had a history of being abusive. He had fled his hometown because the authorities were after him for murder. He had lived half his life doing menial, manual labour though he had significant educational training.
Then he got a call to organize and lead a mass evacuation of a tribe of over a million people from one threatened location into another dangerous one. He took the job reluctantly.
There was this other man. He was highly educated and he was proud of it. His law degree and his position as an instructor at the National Leadership Institute made him very impatient with people who didn’t hold the same exalted views he had. So much so, that he got his friends in government to allow him to lay charges against his loudest opponents. He got police cooperation to arrest some and keep them incarcerated for lengthy periods of time. A few were never heard of again after their arrests.
Then his man got a call to go on an extended, international tour of speaking arrangements aimed to promote the understanding that only kindness, mercy, and love can change the world. It required a bout of serious physical problems to convince him to take the job.
Neither Moses nor the apostle Paul were likely candidates for leadership of God’s people, but God wouldn’t have it any other way.
God works through people.
Not through saints or super-humans or stars, but regular people.
On Good Friday Jesus established the procedure for Kingdom work:
- Imperfect people are assigned particular jobs.
- They receive particular gifts to do them.
- They go at the job with all the effort and ability they can muster.
- Where they fall short or miss the mark Jesus fills in with His love. He fixes and completes the job.
- When night falls the master says: ‘Well, done, good and faithful servant.
There is comfort and encouragement in this. Bulkley Valley Christian School is by no means a perfect place. The teachers have faults which sometimes make the job harder than God intended it. But they are not in front of the class because of their abilities. They are there because God chooses to do His work through them to achieve His purposes. The students are by no means perfect. They get to do good work anyway because it is God who works thought them. Where they fail, Jesus helps them to be complete.
Jesus paid the price, we get to keep the change.
Good Friday is good indeed because God has made sure that a not-so-good people will do good work.
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