For the Start of School
The students returned today to our local schools. It is good to have noise and movement, people and excitement again. I sat many hours in my office this summer lulled by the silence. But neither I, nor the administrative staff, nor the teachers are there to pass the time quietly for ourselves. We are there for the students who have returned for another year. Bruderhof.com had the following a couple weeks ago. It says it well.

For the Coming School Year
Gabriela Mistral

Many things can wait.
Children cannot.
Today their bones are being formed,
their blood is being made,
their senses are being developed.
To them we cannot say “tomorrow.”
Their name is today.