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Dear Families,
I grew up living all over the place, and am fortunate to know that each place I have lived is “home” to me in some capacity or another. It’s where memories have been created, life has been lived, challenges have occurred and growth has been made. Relationships made with people who have become beloved members in your life story are what define home to me. Family. Friends. Community. Prior to making Seattle my home, Los Angeles was home. It’s where I became an adult, a teacher and learned how to truly be independent. I know that for many reading today, this is a story we share, somehow connected to the community and good people of Los Angeles. With all disasters around the globe, lives are rocked, changed, forever altered. But what I find most beautiful is the way that communities come together during and after tragedy, regardless of its scale. The stories of community, of love, bravery and valor, the stories of faith and hope and self sacrifice for others are the ones I choose to focus on, because in the midst of devastation, there is still such beauty, and the face of Christ in one another. Home isn’t just a structure, it’s not just a physical location. It’s all of that and more all at once. Home lives within us and within each other. Home is in the hope and the belief that there will be better days ahead, even in darkness. Home is found in our relationships with Christ, in the many ways that it is unique for each of us.
In our own home at OLG we seek to focus on what makes us a home outside of the walls that contain us, focusing on the bonds that unite us and shape us as children and adults alike. They are the pillars of our community, at the center being our faith. We are home because we belong to one another as a community. As you work to complete your intent to return (middle school families you have the largest percentage submitted so far!), and as we head into Catholic Schools Week, let us be the beacons of hope Pope Francis calls us to be. Let us remember our home within one another. We belong to each other. What a beautiful blessing to behold.
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