NEW YEAR MESSAGE FROM THE HEADMASTER

Happy New Year 2017!!! 

 January , 2017

 Perhaps you were up late on 31st night, ringing in 2017. Put on the coffee. We’ll wait. The new year begins as an empty slate with nothing but a sense of incalculable  possibilities and hope. As Henry Ward Beecher wrote in 1882, “Every man should be born again on the first of January. But the year will soon be filled with activities, promises and commitments, pleasures and disappointments, work, play, friends and family members. We predict it will be a busy one. Most people these days seem to eschew New Year’s resolutions, having found them either impossible to keep or a trivial idea in the first place. Aren’t we always trying to do better? But there’s something about the new year that can be inspirational. It’s the quintessential time to make necessary and beneficial changes. A new calendar can be just as powerful a motivating force as a new job, a new relationship, a new home. Some make lists. Author Neil Gaiman’s simple new year’s suggestion is: “Whatever it is you’re scared of doing, do it.” It can also be a good time to break with harmful patterns of the past; to release grudges and forgive; to say “Enough of that” and move on. The new year will bring changes, as every year does. And though changes can be challenging and uncomfortable, they’re a necessary part of life. It’s best to face them head on rather than cling to the comforts of past memories. A new beginning is valuable. We hope its promise will last long into the year. May “The LORD bless you and keep you; the LORD make his face shine on you and be gracious to you; the LORD turn his face toward you and give you peace.”’ (Numbers 6: 24-26) 

ALL THE BEST
FROM REV. FR. DEVRAJ FERNANDES