Although the church year begins in late November, it often feels to me, at least, as if the beginning of September- the new school year- has more of a sense of a new start about it. We caught Year 7 pupils walking to the High School on Friday morning, for their induction, without the rest of the school being there. Church activities which have been laid aside for the summer months begin again. It's difficult to resist the gearing-up feel which early September brings.
It's a reminder that the faith has about it that element of learning. Not just adding to the store of facts about the Bible, the peculiarities of this denomination as opposed to that one, and all the rest- it's about learning to inhabit the knowledge we already have. Living from the heart what one las learned in the head.
In the end it's about wisdom. The getting of wisdom, the living from wisdom, the inhabiting the kingdom, the reification of all Jesus said about 'the kingdom of God', This requires more than school; it's about a change of heart and mind and soul which I find on no curriculum outside the faith.
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