It’s a new school year!!

The beginning of a new school year can bring many emotions. You’re excited, nervous, and simultaneously dreading it. You’re excited to begin a new year, attend school events, football, and hang out with friends, but you’re also nervous about starting new classes, meeting new teachers, and facing new challenges. We’ve all been there! If this is you right now, keep reading🤍

It’s been quite a while since I’ve attended high school or undergrad college, but I remember the “new school year” feeling well. New backpack, new clothes, new books, new school supplies, new electronics, and also new anxieties. I was so excited to start my new classes, go to games, start a new dance season, and have new adventures with friends. Still, I was also so nervous that my classes might be challenging, I could fail a test, I would get bullied or picked on by those same few people, someone would gossip about me, someone wouldn’t like my new clothes, and the list could go on and on and on and on….

These anxieties can sometimes eat us alive, make us dread school, make us sick, etc. If you’re currently in this time of your life, let me give you some big sister advice. If you constantly worry about tomorrow, you’ll miss today's blessings! I have to admit these words aren’t my own but straight out of the mouth of Jesus during His Sermon on the Mount! During this sermon, Jesus was trying to teach us that we do not have to worry about a future that God has already planned. Worrying will eat us down until we can’t go anymore. Instead, He encourages us to trust in God, pray, and HAVE FAITH!

We do not know what our futures bring this school year, and I can honestly say I’ve learned to stop planning and stressing because God will always move me in the direction He calls me to! We cannot let our anxieties take over. He knows the future—we do not. He has our backs!

This school year, I want to encourage you not to worry so much about the future and instead live in the moment you’re in! You don’t know it yet, but these are the moments you’re going to remember for years to come.

“Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.”

Matthew 6:34