Choosing to follow (proper 18)
Deueronomy 30: 15-20, Luke 14: 25-33 This week September has crept up on us and arrived with not so much a bang as a downpour. As the children around us return to school, we might have remembered this week to offer up a little prayer for them. Our grandchildren are just starting out in year 13 & 11: what I still think of as the upper sixth and the fifth form – in other words Rose will do her A levels at the end of this school year and Jonah will do his GSCEs – and both of them will need to make decisions pretty soon about what they want to do in the next stage of their lives, and what exam results they might need to get there. Life can seem hard for the children in our families, or the children we know from our streets: it feels as though there are more choices than ever in their lives, and yet so many pressures to endure and temptations to resist. The work of schools is to help young people navigate the choices of this world and make good ch...