Weekly Inspiration
Weekly Inspiration
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Greetings and blessings to the extended Springfield Community
We commenced the academic year with a service in the Dominican Chapel for all staff, with a theme we'll try to permeate in all our undertakings this year.
The theme is based on a quote by WIlliam Kentridge currently exhibiting his work at the Zeitz Mocca Museum. William has granted us special permission to use this image.
We hope that we will remain mindful of the beauty of difference, the steadfastness of our rich Dominican legacy and the potential of seeing each other through the lens of a dignified humanity. Hold The Open Heart is an expectation as well as a challenge to discern the richness of the blessing evident in its search.
Gillian Stubbs
Lord, at the start of this 2020 academic year, we turn to you in gratitude for the gifts that you have poured into our hearts as members of your Son’s body. We ask you to send your Spirit upon us so that by hearing your word, we may grow in reverence for one another, as servant leaders in our Springfield School community. We make this prayer through Christ our Lord. Amen
Courage by Maya Angelou
My wish for you
Is that you continue
Continue
To be who and how you are
To astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness
Continue
To allow humour to lighten the burden
Of your tender heart
Continue
In a society dark with cruelty
To let the people hear the grandeur
Of God in the peals of your laughter
Continue
To let your eloquence elevate the people
to heights they had only imagined
Continue
To remind the people that each is as good as the other
And that no one is beneath nor above you
Continue
To remember your own young years
And look with favour upon the lost and the least and the lonely
Continue
To put the mantel of your protection
Around the bodies of the young and defenceless
Continue
To take the hand of the despised and diseased
and walk proudly with them in the high street
Some might see you and
Be encouraged to do likewise
Continue
To plant a public kiss of concern
On the cheek of the sick and the aged and infirm
And count that as a natural action to be expected
Continue
To let gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel
To say your nightly prayer
And let faith be the bridge you build
to overcome evil and welcome good
Continue
To ignore no vision
Which comes to enlarge your range and increase your spirit
Continue
To dare to love deeply
And risk everything for the good thing
Continue
To float happily in the sea of infinite substance
Which set aside riches for you
Before you had a name
Continue
And by doing so
You and your work will be able to continue
Eternally
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