September, it seems, often brings even more of a ‘fresh start’ feel than the beginning of a new calendar year.
We love the sense of new possibilities, new resolutions and new challenges. Aware of things not accomplished in the year that is past, it’s exciting to consider how we might tackle those challenges in new ways. We love anticipating the new things God will lead us into and the new opportunities God will provide.
Unless, of course, we are feeling stuck. Unless the overriding sense is not excitement at new possibilities, but the presence of a rut and us being in it. So that, whatever we do, we can’t seem to climb out of it. That ‘stuck in a rut’ feeling gives to September (or January, or just about every day) a very different kind of experience.
