Today my school was awarded the highest honour a school can get. No, it wasn't for scholastic merit or for athletics; both of those are very important but are not of the highest honour. Honour must be conferred on that which is the most difficult, challenging action. Also the action must be an action especially pleasing to God if it is to be worthy of the highest honour; for who else can determine what is ultimately honorable? All else is relative and given to folly. To be recognized as compassionate is the highest honour for it is based on the love of one's neighbour, the greatest love according to my Lord; all schools could've accomplished what we did, but they lacked the will to do it. World Vision awarded my school's collective will power today. Last year we raised more money for famine relief in Africa than in any other school in Delta or BC or Canada! That includes very rich private schools like St. George's or Upper Canada College! If they had willed to they could have easily put our humble efforts to shame -- and this is where the full manliness of the honour we earned for our little high school kicks in -- but they didn't will it to be done, whereas we did. I am thankful to work at a school where we are honored for our compassion.
This year we will do the 30h famine again for Rwanda. I pray that this will help some Rwandans and that it helps to cleanse and make more loving hearts in the students who participate. O, Lord have mercy!
7 comments:
Congratulations! That is indeed, a high honour. Go kids. That speaks a lot for your student body. Very cool.
What a great bunch of kids. I know you work in a multi-ethnic setting. How great that everyone worked together for a common goal.
Rawanda made me think of a book that I think you would like very much
Shake Hands With the Devil
by General Roméo Dallaire (Retired Canada). It is about the genocide in Rawanda:the evil and ignorance of so many and the strength of a few good Canadian soldiers who were leaders and wrestled with what is right and good....sometime this is not at all easy to identify.
Congrats!
Compassion for thy neighbour is very much the topic of Pope Benedict's new encyclical - I haven't read the entire thing, merely excepts but the topic is Love - I am looking forward to reading it in its entirety.
Wings of Desire directed by Wim Wenders
hey thomas! (pronounced in the lovely french: to-mah)
one word: UPDATE!
(cuz i like reading your blog!)
I ditto Vic, Thomas. Update.
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