The First Day of School

With the school year starting up again, I have been inundated with people’s back-to-school photos.  With school starting in mid-August in Kansas and Missouri, my family began posting photos weeks ago.  I have seen little kids with “First Day of Kindergarten” signs and parents standing in barren dorm rooms that are filled with bags yet to be unpacked.  I have seen friends post photos of themselves with backpacks and big grins with the caption that they are beginning their last year of graduate school.  I have also seen side-by-side comparison pictures of the current first-day-of-school picture with the last-first-day-of-school picture.  And today being the first day after Labor Day, I have seen the last round of Michigan’s first-day-of-school pictures.

Seeing these photos today made me think about how we measure time.  There is a joke on the internet that crops up every now and again that, “Americans will measure with anything other than the metric system.”  Want an example?  Click here to read 27 of them.  Similarly, I find it interesting how many people use the school year as a tool of measurement.  Never mind that we celebrate the changing of the year every January, we use the beginning of the school year as a different measure of time.  Even folks like me who haven’t had a “first day of school” day in 7 school years!

Never mind if you are retired, are actively teaching, or taking someone to school, September still holds a feeling of the year getting stated again.  Fall programing begins, some congregations are holding Homecoming Celebrations, and committees start meeting once again.  Northminster is no different: Our new fall series will start this Sunday.  The following two Sundays we have lunch-n-learn classes after worship.  Session meets this Thursday and the Deacon the week after.

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And with that, we are off and going again.  If Northminster was to have a back-to-school picture, it would be 69 years old and in the 64th Grade.
Happy School Year everyone!

Blessings,
Pastor Chris