Girls starting school

This girl starts school shortly, she is 4 and she has a large uniform with new name tapes.  Now she is 4 she says she doesn't mind tadpoles anymore!  YOU are a bit older than 4 and you are about to start a new career as a teacher!  WOW, that is something.  I know that you are more nervous than Grace, it is no mean thing going into a classroom of up to 30 girls aged 14 or 15 and not being nervous.
It is a bit too easy to just suggest meditation will help, I can't do more than suggest it but I can try to give a reason.  There is something that happens, some connection to a bigger, wider, more profound source which takes place when you turn inward.  If you just turned inward to thoughts, you would get thinking done, but if you turn and open to a still presence, using your mantra or a prayer, you are saying that you hope for help, you are admitting your own vulnerability.  You will put in all the effort to be a good teacher, that is in your nature, you will prepare and be ready for whatever comes, so I can only encourage you from my place of retirement to make that extra effort, take that little extra time each day to be still.  All the girls in your care will be, like Grace, nervously waiting for school but really they will want to be taught and to be liked.  Good luck old fruit! We will be thinking of you.