"Who knows—perhaps it was for a time like this that you came into the kingdom?”
I came across this passage from the Book of Esther twice in the same day last week. It made me think about time - how we use it, how we organize it, how we maximize it.
It's about time.
With just about 45 days until the end of the school year, and 90 until the end of the fiscal year, it's about time.
With Spring Fundraisers coming quickly and maybe already concluding, it's about time.
With teachers getting contracts for next year, it's about time.
With teachers getting observed, coached, developed, and evaluated, it's about time.
With performance reviews providing affirmations and mid-year adjustments, it's about time.
With registration and re-registration filling up our classrooms for 2026-27, it's about time.
With budgets getting created and audits getting completed and construction projects getting planned and underway for Spring and Summer, it's about time.
With processes getting tweaked for greater clarity, effectiveness and efficiency, it's about time.
With strategic and accreditation plans getting created, publicized, advanced, and completed, it's about time.
With summer affording us opportunities to slow down more deeply engage in improvement projects for programming, personnel, and property, it's about time.
With Lent barreling toward Holy Week and into Easter, it's about time.
With asking our Father for His kingdom to come, and for Him to give us this day our daily bread, it's about time.
With us gathering together with colleagues and faculties and staffs to support each other and grow as disciples and professionals of Christ, it's about time.
With each of us being called to serve in our respective ministries at this time, in these places, to do this work of Catholic education where we currently serve, it's about time.
It's about time. Everything is about time.
Outside of our faith and each other, time is perhaps the most valuable resource and gift God has bestowed upon us. And alike the gift of faith that is meant to be shared, the commodity of time should be used in ways that benefit others and honor our great God.
Another day is one of the gifts God blesses us with every morning. Our gift back to Him and the world is what we do with the time that we have been given.
Keep doing this important work to which you have been called. Keep prioritizing your time so that we complete the most essential aspects of our roles. Keep inviting others to assist in advancing the mission of our schools, integrating and differentiating between and among the various duties expected of each person.
Keep believing that perhaps you have been called to the kingdom for such a time as this.
This time; it's about time.
