August New Year
I can’t believe its August already! For many of us, that means back to school, fall sports, shorter days, and the busy season.
I love August for 2 main reasons.
It’s my birthday month! No, we are not talking about how old I am, but I do really love getting to celebrate all month long. Last year we had the most amazing trip celebrating a milestone birthday. I have zero plans this year!
This is my new year. Maybe its the back to school shopping, or the beginning of sliding into the fall season, but August always feels like the start of a new year for me.
I have always felt that January shouldn’t be the only time we get to start fresh. As parents, back to school means new supplies, new teachers, new classes, new friends, and new opportunities. I think this is the part I like best.
August brings hope.
There is something so freeing in knowing that we get to start again. When the last year has been hard or grief is heavy. When things didn’t go as planned. When it seems like things might never change…There is still hope.
“See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it?
I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland.”
I am trusting God to handle a lot for me this August. This has been a year of grief and change. I am looking ahead to this new year with a renewed hope that God is going to work all things for good and His glory. If I don’t continue to trust in that hope, in that unwavering love, then the heavy stuff will continue to be just that, heavy.
In 2020 at the start of pandemic I wrote this about hope:
“I fully believe that in the midst of grief, anxiety, despair, uncertainty, and desperation hope can be found. We can find it in new life circumstances, trying new things, in serving those around us, and finding what we thought was lost forever.”
I will forever continue to hope in the new things that are happening around us. I will let hope lead the way through this new year of life and school. Pass it on ok?
We are bringing hope forward this year. We got this mamas. We can do hard things right now in this season of grief and new adventures. We can march forward with new planners and pens and declare this our year for hope.
I am opening this space up as a place of hope and encouragement. I have so much that I want to share with you all in the coming year. From stories of encouragement and parenting fails/wins to midsize fashion and my favorite KC destinations. We are doing it this year friends. Make sure to subscribe to my page as I begin to share weekly encouragement from a mom who has been through some crap. Kind of like the guy from Farmers Insurance says: I know a thing or two because I’ve seen a thing or two. Lets continue to build hope and encouragement as moms and women.
This is going to be an amazing year.
Happy August New Year!
-Erica
*Images courtesy of Kendra Miller Photography. Published with permission.