Nick says he loves the first day of school and finding out who’s in his classes. He enjoys seeing his friends again and how they’ve changed over the summer. He also loves the last week of school when change again fills the air and school means winding down, watching movies, and cleaning out lockers. It’s those pesky in-between days that bring him down with the weighty gravity of math mysteries and detailed directions. These things burst the bubble of what could serve as a perfectly wonderful social experience.
Everyone needs the dose of hope a new start brings. We need hope that our relationships will work out, hope that there’s more to life than what we’ve experienced, hope that we can be more than we’ve been, and hope that we’ll make more of a positive difference in our corners of the world.
How do we fight a sagging attitude when we spend most of our days repeating what we did yesterday? How do we stay on top of circumstances that don’t and won’t change? Instead of waiting for something else to change, we climb higher and get farther down God's path for us when we accept He's using our unchanging circumstances to transform us. Only through the transformation do we learn to transcend what usually holds us to the ground.
“He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak. Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall; but those who hope in the LORD will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles, they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.” Isaiah 40:29-31
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