“For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven.”
Ecclesiastes 3:1
It is finally here.
For some of you, that sentence means absolutely nothing. For others, you already know exactly what I am talking about. College football is back!
All across the country, fans are pulling their favorite shirts and jerseys out of the closet. Fight songs are playing again, and tailgates are being planned. And everybody is convinced that this is going to be their year.
One of the things I love about the beginning of college football season is the hope that comes with it. Before the games have been played, anything seems possible. Whatever happened last season is now in the record books. A new season has begun.
Ecclesiastes reminds us, “For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven.” Our lives are filled with seasons. Some are joyful. Some are difficult. Some seasons seem to fly by, while others feel like they are never going to end. Sometimes we enter a new season excited about what is ahead, and sometimes we enter it carrying the wounds and disappointments of the season before. The good news is that God is present in all of them.
So as another football season begins, maybe it can remind us to think about the season of life we are in right now.
What is God doing in your life during this season? What might God be asking you to leave behind? Where might God be inviting you to grow? Is there something you have been carrying from a previous season that God’s grace is inviting you to finally release?
We do not know what the coming months will bring, but we know God is with us.
Grace and peace,