Every month throughout the year I have the boys contribute to their folders by adding in a Reflection piece. It is a time of personal review and evaluation, as well as a jumping off point for conversations regarding changes, failures, growth and successes.
Many people speak about each month being a clean slate, a new opportunity. However, I think of each month as the next stage of a mountain climb. Each step is new, into unmarked snow, but the trail created is not been wiped clean of the footprints leading to the present. Reflecting gives us the opportunity to recognize our path so that we can continue to make progress, sometimes doubling back, other times pressing forward towards the top.
Never is this more true than at the end of a climb. Looking back, each climber has taken a different route, some more circuitous than others; but with each reflection we are given the opportunity to celebrate the new steps forward, as well as each step left behind.
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