Chaplains Spot

What a couple of weeks we have enjoyed, celebrating the talents of our students in production.  Also, we have celebrated the wonderful talent and commitment of Peta Murray, our Performing Arts teacher. 

The Top 5 Benefits In Celebrating Something: 

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/top-5-benefits-celebrating-something-keryn-rose

Acknowledging something ‘significant’ or ‘happy’ can bring many benefits into your life.

1. Celebrating Releases Stress

Our lives can be full of expectations and the need to achieve. Our ‘to do’ list can create the need to constantly move from one task to the next. Allowing time to acknowledge the completion of something gives you ‘time out’ from the list. It creates an opportunity to be with yourself and to be grateful in that moment.

2. Celebrating Shows Appreciation

Recognition is a powerful thing. To have someone notice what you have done makes you feel appreciated. When you are that person recognising what you have done, you are showing yourself just how special you are. At that moment, your sense of worthiness receives a huge injection of love.

3. Celebrating is Energising

Moving through your day from task to task can be incredibly tiring. The pressure to get things done can drain the body’s energy, particularly if you are not enjoying it. Celebrating moments throughout the day can restore the body’s energy as you send yourself messages of appreciation and worthiness for a job well done.

4. Celebrating Creates Valuable Down Time

Choosing to celebrate a moment within your day creates down time. It creates a space in which you can reflect. From this space of gratitude, you can gently evaluate the moment and see any changes that may be beneficial.

5. Celebrating Acknowledges Worthiness

In a world that can easily be seen as negative, acknowledging that something is important for you reflects a sense of worthiness to you.

At GRPS, we have  acknowledged and appreciated each other’s worth in ‘The Generation Gap’. This doesn’t mean we have to earn our worth, but appreciation strengthens our feeling of worth. We all need to be affirmed of our value to another person. 

Community Support: Thank you to our Meal Train and Toast Tuesday volunteers. We appreciate your help. 

Meal Train roster: The Meal Train link is https://www.mealtrain.com/trains/vlwooz

Toast Tuesday roster: The Toast Tuesday link is volunteersignup.org/3TCXX 

Second-hand uniforms: We have plenty of winter items, so check them out on Tuesday mornings!

Emergency food items or bakery items: Come to Toast Tuesday if your family would appreciate some extra food, or you would like to be included for weekly Bakers’ Delight bread or rolls.   

FRIDAY FUN FACT: The original name for the search engine Google was Backrub. It was renamed Google after the googol, which is the number one followed by 100 zeros. 

10,000,000, 000,000, 000,000, 000,000, 000,000, 000,000, 000,000, 000,000, 000,000, 000,000, 000,000, 000,000, 000,000, 000,000, 000,000, 000,000,000

Alan Silverwood: Chaplain - Pastoral care for our community. [Monday, Tuesday, Friday]

Feel free to contact me via Compass email or at the school, whatever the reason. 

Supporting the wellbeing of our School community - 

 emotional 

 social

 spiritual 

 practical

Our Chaplaincy program is funded by the Federal Government’s ‘National Student Wellbeing Program’, the GRPS School Council and donations.