For Everything There Is A Season

I found the courage to wear red lipstick today. I know it may seem futile or small in comparison to so many more greater things to do today; however it is one of the items on my list of things to do before I die. A comparative list of fears per se. See I’m trying to grow myself up. I recently turned thirty-three (typed out to decrease the shock factor – purely for my benefit) and decided that it was time to do some of the things that I keep saying I’m gonna do and stop putting them off. Another item on my list is planting (flowers and gardening). My recent efforts at my vegetable garden have been thwarted only because I found a series of vole holes in my backyard. With that discovery I decided not to till my ground on last week. The thought and visual remembrance of the holes in the ground, not to mention the web search I did on those little varmits, still bring shivers to my body. However, I have decided that I will continue and moving forward will do container planting on my deck instead (So THERE! you voles….TAKE THAT!). So I have having weekly ‘therapy sessions’ as I call them, go and purchase flowers and vegetable plants. This seems to de-stress me…very soothing shopping. Investments that I know will give me something in return. It truly makes me happy. Last night I purchased some potted pansies. I got home, took them to my deck and cared for them, strategically placed them amongst the other ‘babies’, and went to bed. Woke up this morning to see the packets of flower seeds that I had purchased a month ago, still sitting in the place I put them after taking them out of the bag, still not planted and realized that this is an issue. I keep purchasing potted plants and such, when I have what I need at hand. I have marveled at the beauty of God’s handiwork, and although I realize that everything in life requires processing, I had decided to skip the very part, the most important. And that is creating a foundation, sewing seed(s), watering and nurturing, and in turn watching that seed turn into something just wonderful. God see’s us in this very way! He created us, planted us in the family we are supposed to be a part of, has given us the resources we need for life including the wonderful book called the Bible (B-asic, I-nstructions, B-efore, L-eaving, E-arth), and is ever watchful, waiting for our ‘blooms’ to show. However, blooming requires processing…this is the heart of everything. So often in our walk(s) with Christ we try and skip to receiving the anointing and gifts of God without realizing that there is a process to go through in order to get it. And trust, if you don’t want to go through the test and trials, then you don’t want the reward…because you won’t be ready for what comes with it. The test and trials works patience, and hope, and is what proves us.

All this to say that today, I will de-stress by picking up some more pots and potting soil to plant my seeds this afternoon. As God continues to work in my life, I have an expected end of what is to come of my little seeds. For He makes all things beatiful in His time! Amen


Ecclesiastes3:11 He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.


Romans 5:3-5 And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience; And patience, experience; and experience, hope: And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.