Your Van Buren Middle School Daily Announcements for Thursday, December 10, 2020:
THURSDAY!
A Man found a cocoon of a butterfly. One day a small opening appeared. He sat and watched the butterfly for several hours as it struggled to push its body through the small whole. Until it suddenly stopped making any progress and looked like it was stuck. So the man decided to help the butterfly. He took a pair of scissors and snipped off the remaining bit of the cocoon. The butterfly then emerged easily, although it had a swollen body and small, shriveled wings. The man didn’t think anything of it and sat there waiting for the wings to enlarge to support the butterfly. But that didn’t happen. The butterfly spent the rest of its life unable to fly, crawling around with tiny wings and a swollen body. Despite the kind heart of the man, he didn’t understand that the restricting cocoon and the struggle needed by the butterfly to get itself through the small opening; were God’s way of forcing fluid from the body of the butterfly into its wings. To prepare itself for flying once it was out of the cocoon. Moral of the story: Our struggles in life develop our strengths. Without struggles, we never grow and never get stronger, so it’s important for us to tackle challenges on our own, and not be relying on help from others.
THIS WEEK @ VBMS:
- Thursday, 12/10: 8th grade igKnight Leadership meeting - Learning Commons (11AM)
- Saturday 12/12: MS Wrestling @ Liberty Center High School (9:00 AM)
LUNCH TODAY:
Homemade Chicken & Sausage Gumbo, Rice, Carrot Sticks, Ass. Fruit, Milk
NJHS members will have a lunchtime meeting (11:00), Friday 12/11 in the learning commons. Please check your email for more details!"
- Lunch Count/Staff Lunch Order
- All students are eligible to receive free school lunches (a regular lunch) as a result of the federal school lunch program waiver made possible through the CARES act. Additionally, any students purchasing a regular school lunch since the start of the school year will have that lunch cost refunded to their lunch account in the coming weeks.