At the end of the week, as I approach Sabbath, I think the voyage is perhaps at an end. But, it is not. The Sabbath serves a time of replenishment, a finding of new wonder in the days to come. I look in as suggested in this poem by Rabindranath Tagore. The path opens in front of me in way I am sure this is in my destiny.
I thought that my voyage had come to its end
at the last limit of my power,—that the path before me was closed,
that provisions were exhausted
and the time come to take shelter in a silent obscurity.
But I find that thy will knows no end in me.
And when old words die out on the tongue,
new melodies break forth from the heart;
and where the old tracks are lost,
new country is revealed with its wonders.
About ivonprefontaine
In keeping with bell hooks and Noam Chomsky, I consider myself a public and dissident intellectual. Part of my work is to move beyond (transcend) institutional dogmas that bind me to defend freedom, raising my voice to be heard on behalf of those who seek equity and justice in all their forms.
I completed my PhD in Philosophy of Leadership Studies at Gonzaga University, Spokane, WA. My dissertation and research was how teachers experience becoming teachers and their role as leaders.
I focus on leading, communicating, and innovating in organizations. This includes mindfuful servant-leadership, World Cafe events, Appreciative Inquiry, and expressing one's self through creativity. I offer retreats, workshops, and presentations that can be tailored to your organzations specific needs.
I published peer reviewed articles about schools as learning organizations, currere as an ethical pursuit, and hope as an essential element of adult eductaion. I published three poems and am currently preparing my poetry to publish as an anthology of poetry.
I present on mindful leadership, servant leadership, schools as learning organizations, how teachers experience becoming teachers, assessement, and critical thinking. I facilitate mindfulness, hospitality retreats. and World Cafe Events using Appreciative Inquiry.
I am writing and researching about various forms of leadership, how teachers inform and form their identity as a particular teacher, schools as learning organizations, hope, nonviolence and its anticipatory relationship with the future, as essential elements to teaching and learning.
Academic publications can be found at Ivon Gile Prefontaine on ResearchGate
Teacher as Transformer 
Good Sabbath.
Thank you and you in turn.
Exactly. Light burns brightly until the last, and then who knows what range of spectrums known and unknown might be revealed. It’s all a fantastic light trip…:)
I love that final line. It is a fantastic light trip we are on.
Do you ever wonder why God rested on the Sabbath? As He is omnipotent, I can’t believe that He needed a rest from all His work so I draw the conclusion that it was for our benefit as you said for replenishment.
Marie, your conclusion is consistent with the thinking of Wayne Muller. The honouring of the Sabbath is by invitation. It is the only Commandment that invites us to do something rather than prohibits us. Muller also suggested God wanted to admire a masterpiece.
Thank you for Wayne Muller’s thoughts which are completely new to me. Is there a book I might read with other gems of understanding?
The book he is best known for is simply called Sabbath. I used it as part of a retreat I attended in the fall. It provides insight into Sabbath and ecumenical practices.
Thanks. I will see if I can order it.
Oh, my. Thank you for this wondrous inspiration. Hugs….
You are welcome and thank you.