May is a month filled with transitions. One minute you’re buying the next size up in shoes, and the next you’re sitting at a kindergarten graduation trying not to cry as your little one sings songs about growing up. Middle schoolers suddenly look more independent. Moms watch as high school seniors walk across stages wondering how the years moved so quickly. For many women, May is beautiful, emotional, exhausting, and bittersweet all at once.
Life is full of seasons, and motherhood constantly reminds us of that truth.
Ecclesiastes 3:1 says, “For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven.”
Some seasons feel exciting while others feel difficult to release. One season brings first-day-of-school pictures, another brings driver’s licenses, college orientations, empty bedrooms, or changing family routines. Even for women without children, May often carries reminders of changing relationships, shifting responsibilities, or new chapters God is unfolding.
The hard part about seasons is that they rarely ask our permission before changing.
Yet throughout Scripture, we see that God faithfully walks His people through every transition. The same God who strengthened Moses in leadership changes, comforted Hannah in her waiting, and guided Ruth into unfamiliar territory is the same God walking with you now.
Isaiah 43:19 reminds us, “See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it?”
Sometimes we focus so much on what is ending that we miss what God is beginning.
Maybe your child is leaving elementary school and you’re nervous about the middle school years ahead. Maybe you’re watching your senior prepare for graduation and wondering what your role as a mother will look like next. Maybe you’re grieving how quickly childhood passed, or perhaps you’re relieved to finally see your child reach milestones you prayed hard for.
Every one of those emotions can exist together.
But here is the comfort: God is not seasonal in His faithfulness. He does not change when our lives do.
Hebrews 13:8 says, “Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.”
While your children grow, your routines shift, and your heart stretches into unfamiliar places, God remains steady. He goes before your children into every classroom, every locker-lined hallway, every graduation stage, and every future they have yet to step into.
You were never meant to carry the weight of every changing season alone.
So celebrate the milestones. Take the pictures. Cry the tears. Cheer loudly at the graduations. But remember this: every new season is another opportunity to trust the God who authors them all.
And just as He was faithful in the last season, He will be faithful in this one too.
This devotion was written by Amy Carrico.
Last Updated on May 26, 2026
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