When You're Not in Bloom Yet

“To everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven.”

— Ecclesiastes 3:1

Not all seasons are blooming ones. Some are slow, in-between, quiet. Maybe even a little gray.

It’s easy to equate growth with activity—something visible, measurable, reportable. But grace works differently. God doesn’t rush. He doesn’t always bloom us in public. Sometimes the deepest growth happens hidden—beneath the soil, in the waiting, in the spaces where it looks like nothing is happening.

If that’s where you find yourself, take heart. Silence isn’t absence. Stillness isn’t failure. God is still here. And He’s still working, even in the quiet.

Grace Notes

This week I opened my journal and realized I had nothing “new” to say. No clever phrase. No fresh word. But I wrote anyway—not because I had something important to share, but because the writing itself has become a way I meet with God.

Sometimes, my only offering is the willingness to show up with an open heart. And maybe, that’s enough.