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It’s funny how September sneaks up on us.
Summer starts out with big plans—vacation, rest, maybe even catching up on that Bible study we meant to finish back in April. (You know, from that New Year’s resolution we were all fired up about.) But somehow it all gets away from us. The days get long, the routine disappears, and before we know it, we’re standing in the school supply aisle thinking, “Well, here we are again.”
I’ve started to think of this time of year as a second chance.
It’s not as loud as the New Year, when everyone’s posting resolutions and jumping into 30-day challenges. Fall feels quieter—but just as meaningful. There’s something about a new rhythm, a fresh calendar, or a return to routine that makes you want to get back to what matters.
And for a lot of us, that includes getting back to the Lord.
I don’t know what your summer looked like spiritually. Maybe you stayed steady in your quiet time. Maybe you got off track. Maybe you’ve just been coasting. Or maybe you’ve felt so overwhelmed that even opening your Bible felt impossible.
Wherever you are right now—I want you to hear this: You’re not behind. You’re invited.
Lamentations 3:22–23 says that God's mercies are new every morning. Not just on January 1st. Not just when the school year resets. Every morning. That means today—right now—can be a fresh start if you want it to be.
It doesn’t have to be a dramatic overhaul. You don’t need a color-coded journal or a quiet house with soft worship music and freshly brewed coffee (though we wouldn’t turn that down, either).
Maybe a fresh start looks like:
- Setting your alarm ten minutes early to read a verse and whisper a prayer.
- Listening to Scripture while folding laundry or driving.
- Asking God, honestly, what He wants to do in you this season.
- Reaching out to someone at church you’ve been distant from.
- Showing up on Sunday—even if you’ve been gone for a while.
Galatians 6:9 reminds us, “Let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.” This might just be your due season. And it doesn’t have to look like anyone else’s.
Let’s be real. Here in Mississippi, fall doesn’t always show up on time.
September rolls in and we’re still sweating through our T-shirts. We’re dreaming of soup season and cute boots, but the humidity? It didn’t get the memo. Still, we pull out the pumpkins. We light the cinnamon candles. We pretend it’s crisp outside because we’re ready for a shift.
And honestly, that’s what faith looks like sometimes, too. We step forward into the new season even when everything around us still feels sticky and stuck. We trust that change is coming—even if the breeze hasn’t arrived just yet.
You just need a willing heart.
Isaiah 43:19 says, “Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it?” God is always doing new things in us—through every season, even the messy, ordinary, in-between ones.
So if you’ve been waiting for a sign to start again… this is it.
Not because it’s a new month. But because the Lord is ready when you are.