Thought For The Day – Thursday 11th July 2024
Back To The Future
When we were young. In 2015, whilst on-loan from Exeter City to Weston-super-Mare, Ollie Watkins, then aged 18, scored a goal and assisted another goal in his team’s 4-3 away victory against Bishop’s Stortford Football Club. Ollie Watkins played in this town over nine years ago.
Last night, having progressed in his career from Exeter to Brentford and then Aston Villa, he scored the last-minute winner for England in the 2024 “Euros” to reach their first major men’s final abroad.
Our roots are our fruits.
It is said by philosophers and theologians such as Boethius and Saint Anselm that God sees our past, present and future in one simultaneous vision.
Last Saturday afternoon, generations of former TBSHS students, staff and parents came back to share decades of positive memories about their time at TBSHS and how it shaped, supported and sustained them. Thanks to the brilliant staff and parent organizing teams, who created something truly unique, unprecedented and special, around every corner was another person, another story and another generation. Time travel happened at TBSHS last Saturday.
But TBSHS never stands still.
On Monday evening, the next generation of students and parents were attending school to buy their uniform ready for their new school. Their TBSHS journey is just beginning.
Today we remember when we first started at TBSHS and welcome our new Year 7 students. They are the next generation. They will win games and win seasons. But they need all of us to warmly welcome them today. Bring your A Game. Represent. Again. Help anyone who needs support. Look after them. Put other people first. This is “The Black and Gold Spirit”.
And remember, in September 2024, all of us, staff and students, will be new at our new school and everyone will need to support each other and treat everyone, and everything, with respect.
Very exciting times lie ahead and we are blessed to have these opportunities. Like Ollie Watkins, we take our chance. We go back…to the future.
The wise quote below is from the Danish Christian philosopher Søren Kierkegaard. We learn from the past but live in the present and future. For him, the future involved the hope of Heaven.
