Message: 1 Cor 9:26-27
26 I don’t know about you, but I’m running hard for the finish line. I’m giving it everything I’ve got. No sloppy living for me!
27 I’m staying alert and in top condition. I’m not going to get caught napping, telling everyone else all about it and then missing out myself.
The Lord is using training for an event here, or conditioning yourself or upskilling yourself as a reference when He wants to encourage us to stay focused on our GOAL…or even chasing down a dream. Each one of us might have different GOALS and some of us are unfortunately just existing…no goals. That’s no way of living…without a purpose, drifting along, being susceptible to all kinds of distractions and temptations. You have to live intentionally! You have to be a man (woman) on a mission! So how do you ensure that you get it right and not mess it up?
One of my favourite saying is that practice doesn’t make perfect, but PERFECT practice makes perfect! It pretty much refers to the concept of not engraining bad habits into the way you do things. Due to muscle memory it becomes part of who you are and what you do. You train your brain! Your default setting, your auto-pilot!
Met dit as agtergrond…hoe lekker is dit nie waneer jy iets oefen en dan onder druk dit perfek uitvoer nie. Dit kan ‘n agterlyn beweging wees, ‘n “shorty” in hokkie en selfs as jy in ‘n “band” speel wat tydens ‘n moeilike gedeelte mekaar dopgehou, en die tydsbereking tussen die persoon wat die dromme speel en die bas-kitaar saam met die klavier alles net perfek werk…en die genot en selfbevrediging van ure se oefening wat op die regte tyd, onder druk tot perfeksie uitgevoer is.
So why do I hammer on perfect practice, execution under pressure, making things happen when it counts?…because we have a very busy and compact term that is lying ahead of us. Ultimately ending in the June exams that are actually starting in about 6 weeks. So if you don’t practice being attentive in class, if you don’t ask questions, practice doing your homework, practice studying hard…and I mean Perfect practice, then, when the pressure is on during the exam, your execution won’t be perfect and you will have only one person to blame…yourself!
So, sit hierdie kwartaal skouer aan die wiel…moenie lui wegsteek nie en beplan die kompakte 6-weke, aksiebelaaide kwartaal, sodat die sukses soveel soeter sal smaak aan die einde van die avontuur wat vir jou voorlê.
Balans gaan deurslagewend wees…balans tussen jou akademiese program, jou buitemuurse program en jou sosiale ontvlugting tussendeur dit alles. Mag julle elkeen dit regkry om julself hard te druk sonder om julself uit te brand, maar terselfde tyd nie lui weg te steek nie. Want dit is in die perfekte balans wat jy die Hermie Magic sal smaak.
PRAYER
Dear Lord, thank you for this amazing School, with awesome kids with SO MUCH potential. Please help us to put a plan of action together in order to realise each and every pupil’s potential. Assist us to acquire all the skills and the correct and determined mindset, so that we can please you Lord as we become the best version of ourselves. Please be with us during this very busy term and help us not to run out of energy or lose our vison for this important term. Be the fire in our hearts, the fuel in our engines and drive us with determination through every challenging situation this coming term, because if You are for us, who can be against us.
AMEN
- Dankie aan almal wat iewers betrokke was tydens die vakansie. Ons het verskeie sport spanne gehad wat die skool verteenwoordig het en was ongelooflik trots op julle en die onderwysers/afrigters wat julle vergesel het. Die Hermie Magic staan darm maar net oral uit soos ‘n paal bo water…die lekkerte daarvan is dat julle nie probeer uitstaan nie, maar net deur te wees wie julle is…
Dankie dat julle ons skool so goed verteenwoordig het in hoe julle gespeel het, hoe julle gelyk het en julle gedrag op en van die veld of baan af. Baie trots op julle!
- Mnr Prodehl – Sport
- VRL – Elke Keulder
- Paassangfees
13 April 2025 – Sondag
NG Kerk Hermanus
Die skoolkoor neem Sondag deel aan die groot Sangfees (180 stemme) saam met die Whale Coast Symphony Orkes en verskeie solokunstenaars.
Bywoning gratis.
We are having 3 x 4-day weeks coming up and then April is done. Then 3 x 5-day weeks and then the exams will start! Scary but real. Hence, fail to prepare and you will have to prepare to fail.
Good luck with the 2nd terms. It’s going to be a rollercoaster, but its going to be fun!
- CODE OF HONOUR / EREKODE – Matriek Raad/Matric Council
- Skoollied