Back to School

Today, I head back to school. This is my last first day. 

There are lots of unknowns this year. We have a lovely new principal, a new assistant principal. A short-term librarian. 

There are some knowns too. I will no longer be the Beginning Teacher Coordinator, the school webmaster, the newsletter editor. I will no longer be on county committees, pursue licensures, plan arrival and dismissal schedules, or put together duty rosters. 

I am short term. I am leaving.

Before this year, I thought I was a lifer in the school system. I like my work. I couldn’t think of anything I’d rather do. 

But God . . .

That phrase, “but God . . .”, is now regularly uttered. 

I had no idea the turn my life would take, but I know God knew long ago. Before He made me He knew where I would be, what I would be feeling, this very last first day of my career. The beginning of the end of a chapter. A precursor to a new adventure.