The Season Looks Fine—But I’m Not

On unmet expectations, real life, and the God who’s still in it

I’m beginning to think summer is a hoax.
Like some glorified field day running on broken promises.

(Maybe fall is too—with all its pumpkin spice lattes and apple-flavored everything—but I digress.)

Do you ever feel like the season you’re in just… isn’t cutting it?

You’re trying to create something, or pursue something, or figure something out—and it’s not going how you thought. The friends you love are busy. Or traveling. Or tired. Everything suddenly costs more because apparently every outdoor activity ends in an overpriced icee.

The sun’s out longer. The grass is green. It looks like things should be good.
But they’re not.

Your world feels really different from the one you’re watching.
Like you’re on your couch watching Friends or Sweet Magnolias, where everything gets wrapped up in under an hour.

But in your life?
The hard things don’t disappear after a commercial break.
Sometimes, they don’t go away for weeks. Or months. Or years.

Living is hard.
It’s messy. It’s weird. It’s exhausting.

But it’s also—somehow—so worth it.

The good news? God doesn’t waste seasons.
Even the slow ones. The lonely ones. The ones you didn’t ask for.

Galatians 6:9 says, “Let us not grow weary in doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up.”

So maybe summer didn’t show up the way you hoped.
But that doesn’t mean God didn’t.

Even now, He’s working.
Even here, He’s faithful.

So keep going.
Even if it’s awkward. Even if it’s small. Even if it’s not quite what you planned.

He’s in it.
And He’s not done.