My college kids have already finished a semester and begun a new semester this week. The high schoolers will be out of school on Friday. How about your household? Here are some blog posts from around the Ring to ponder this week.
Hearing a specific song will transport me back to different summers over my lifetime. Deborah has had that same experience and is starting a series of blog posts. Take your best memories and join her conversation!
MaryAnn offers up a reflection on pastoring a transgender person during their transition. It is an important topic always, but we might all get more questions this week, so it is particularly timely.
Jo(e) has written a lovely early summer blog post about mosquitoes and swimming holes. The pictures are gorgeous – go take a virtual stroll through the cedars.
Julia is also already enjoying a more relaxed summer schedule. Let Julia inspire us all to settle into healthy routines that include truly taking our days off and playing as a spiritual discipline this summer.
Summer is also a time of transitions:
- Diane reminds us that in moving to another call, we are blessed by those who will remember us as fondly as we remember them.
- Kathy has so many transitions it will make your head spin!
As you start to observe the Lazy Days of Summer (please God, let us have some lazy days!), grab a glass of iced tea and go read some of the RevGal blogs. Leave a comment. Be blessed by other’s musings.
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It’s actually only schools in the USA (and Canada?) which finish so soon. Here in England we don’t finish until the last week in July, except for those people taking public examinations, who have finished their actual schooling but must still return to school whenever they have an exam over the next few weeks. My niece and nephew are thus beset – my niece with her GCSEs at the end of Year 11, and my nephew with his A levels, which I understand are the equivalent of Junior College, two years later. Scotland and Northern Ireland finish at the end of June, I believe; don’t know about Wales.
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We have some schools that are on a “year round” system that works by quarters, so not even al of the US schools are out for the summer.
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