*I wrote this in my notebook on Good Friday.
It was a moving and touching Holy Thursday Mass and Good Friday Service. Just to try and be able to comprehend Jesus' suffering willingly made me emotional and brought tears to my eyes. And while on my walk, thinking of Jesus' age, 33- the same age as me! What profound mystery, contemplation, and spiritual connection.
Seeing the apartments (near the school I used to work at) built and ready, they look so different than when they were being constructed and built in the Fall. So too, time has passed and things have changed. I have grown.
The school buildings (near where I live, and Elementary School I went to) look so different as well, more like new classrooms. Growth, building, purpose.
I remember last year's Holy Thursday, parking in front of the Catholic school because the parking lot and other areas were full. I parked right next to a St. Joseph statue, I remember I felt worn out and very annoyed with a student from that day and just over the school year. I was applying and praying for a teaching job.
When I did work at the Catholic School just 5 months later, and I would be walking back from Mass with my class, I saw that same St. Jospeh statue in front of the school, and each time I'd think of that Holy Thursday.
God had surely answered my desires and prayers for a teaching job.
So much has happened this past year for you, a whole new chapter revealed! God was guiding you all this way, and so special to start teaching in your “Jesus year”!
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