Editor’s Note: Danny Cometto is the Chairman of the FRCS Board
This past year, a simple prayer has shaped my days:
“Your kingdom come.”
I found myself returning to it in moments of decision and in moments of uncertainty—not as a way of asking God to hurry, but as a way of placing myself under His rule. That prayer has a way of slowing me down, reminding me that God is already at work, and that my task is not to run ahead of Him or lag behind, but to walk with Him.
As I sat with that prayer, I was drawn to the kind of waiting Scripture describes—what the psalms speak of as waiting on the Lord. This is not passive waiting or disengagement. It is a deep, attentive posture, a kind of nearness in which our lives become entwined with God’s movement. When He moves, we move. When He pauses, we pause. Trust, in this sense, is not inactivity—it is alignment.
Psalm 40 gives voice to this kind of waiting:
“I waited patiently for the Lord; He inclined to me and heard my cry.”
The waiting described here is full of expectancy. It is watchful. It listens. And it trusts that God’s timing is not only deliberate, but good.
What I did not expect is that this kind of waiting would sharpen my awareness of what God had already done. In the stillness, I began to recognize His faithfulness more clearly—quiet answers to prayer, steady provision, protection we often only notice in hindsight. Like the psalmist, I could say, “He set my feet upon a rock, making my steps secure.”
And then, almost without effort, something changed.
The prayer that began with longing slowly gave way to gratitude. Waiting gave birth to testimony. Psalm 40 continues, “He put a new song in my mouth, a song of praise to our God.” When we walk closely with the Lord—neither rushing Him nor resisting Him—we begin to see His kingdom not only as something we hope for, but as something already here.
This is the tension Scripture invites us to live in: the already, and the not yet. God’s kingdom is present and active, even as we await its fullness. For our school community, this matters deeply. Teaching, learning, leading, and parenting all require effort, but they are sustained by trust. When we choose to move at God’s pace, we bear witness to a deeper truth: that formation matters more than speed, and faithfulness more than immediate results.
As we begin this new year together, my encouragement is this: let us walk attentively with the Lord—responsive to His leading, untroubled by pauses, confident in His care. Let us be a community marked by peace, patience, and trust, believing, as the psalmist declares, “Blessed is the one who makes the Lord his trust.”
God has been faithful. He is present. And He will continue to lead us—step by step, in His time.
That is a strong and steady place to begin.
