New Every Morning

As I sit and stare at this blank screen, grasping for a topic to blog – especially considering I did not post last week due to the same case of writer’s block, I realize what a great analogy for this time of year. While most people write New Year’s resolutions and celebrate a new year come January 1st, a lot of us in education tend to look at August as our “new year.”

Blank classroom walls, blank white boards, and empty desks are picturesque as we will begin to prepare our environment and lessons for the clean slate of minds of those who will soon enter. Equally exciting and exhausting, this time of year gives way to both the existing and the new. Thoughts of improving upon what has already been done, as well as introducing fresh activities and material.

I can remember as a young girl that with each new school year came the enthusiastic thought of “this year I can do it RIGHT.” Words stemming from a perfectionist’s mind now phrased, “this year I can do it BETTER.” We all long for that, don’t we? A hope that those errors of the past can be forgotten, blotted out, erased and replaced.

While all may never be forgotten, at least we can move forward knowing that in time, mistakes heal. Perhaps that is the reason for Lamentations 3:22-23. Our need to know and be comforted by the fact His mercies are “new every morning” and our clean blank slate, for today, is ready to be filled.

Until next time… ❤️