The following s lide show combine s the thoughts of the STAR Catholic partic ipants with picture s from SPICE 2009

The re fle ctions do not corre spond with the picture s of the partic ipants…

Thank you to the 20 STARS of ,SPICE and to our Board for

the ir ge ne rous support

SPICE 2009

Catholic Schools: Revelation for a distracted world

Re fle ctions of the partic ipants from S t. Thomas Aquinas Catholic

S chools

What key understandings did you attain at SPICE 2009?

Mus ic is a univers al.prayer

We get it… then we don’t. We see it… then we can’t. We have to catch ourselves out and learn again!

We are always s tanding too c lose to the picture of life …

If we s lowly take s te ps back things will appe ar more c le arly for us …

SPICE made me re-evaluate my goals and ambitions in life .

I stepped away from the b ig picture …

Have you caught yourse lf g e tting g rumpy the se days?

It is not just your arteries that

harden

God has g iven me just as many week days as weekends…

I need to treat Tuesdays like Fridays, and November like June. 

We need to bring Friday night and Sunday morning toge ther.

It all s tarts with g ratitude

It all s tarts with g ratitude ….

Happy people are grateful and grateful people are happy.

Counting my b lessings Counting my b lessings everyday allows myse lf to everyday allows myse lf to see what truly matters …see what truly matters …

…… it allows me to he lp it allows me to he lp my students through my students through difficult times …difficult times …

Gratitude re quire s a ce rtain surre nde r to God’s prov ide nce and accompanime nt…

When you share a part of yourse lf the world opens up…

Be open to accepting the life He created for you…

The times that I am most successful are the times that I put those moments in God’ s hands …

What will you bring back to your school after SPICE

2009?

Gratitude

compe ls

Joy!

I fee l honored to be sharing my passion of teaching children, who bring so much joy in to my life !

I came back and convinced ½ the staff to try and go next year …

…b ecause of how awesome the whole weekend was!!

The re is only one plan…..

…And the plan is

YOU!!

If I am grateful, I will be more joyful … …   It encourages others to follow …

Since I have been back I look for g ifts in my life I am grateful for.

“God doe s not call the qualifie d, but qualifie s the calle d.”

Danie l L Loughman

I learned so much from listening to the people in my group. There are so many wise people all around us.

We are God’ s people and we have a purpose …

“Your life is not about you.” Mothe r Te re sa

When you are generous with sharing of your faith, you shrink in your universe and start to see others instead of yourse lf.

As a new SPICER I was very impressed and proud to see the amount of involvement of St. Thomas Aquinas …

Your life is about them

I have learned to be more dependent on people so that I can be grateful for all of the b lessings in my life . 

I need to treat every day as a Friday, and treat every student like an A student. 

They all deserve my time and attention.

I fee l that my spiritual vesse ls have been rejuvenated and awakened

Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy, Spirit as it was in the beginning is now

and ever s hall be . world without end

.Amen

Thank you

Thank you

For what you still have to do

For what you give

For what has been given

Thank you

Thank you

Thank you