The weather has been kind of crummy lately ”“ cloudy, drizzly much of the time, thunderstorms and then downpours. It brought to mind another spring when the weather had been similar.

I hadn’t been out to garden, or to look at my garden, much due to the weather. Then one night, in walking my children out to their car to go home, I took the time to check on my plants. Looking from our window was a disappointing sight as it did not appear that anything was growing at all.

Until I got a little closer.

In going into my garden, I discovered that there were flowers on several plants. The tomato, pepper, zucchini and cucumber plants all had buds. Several of the tomato plants even had very small tomatoes growing. Small but they were there!

The hope of a harvest was beginning to bloom inside of me as well. The beauty of this, was that due to the weather, I had really not done much of anything but plant. Those plants grew in their own way, in their own time.

In gardening, I must be diligent to do my part and the rest, well, much is up to The Gardener, who causes all things to grow.

Life is like gardening at times. We can hope and dream about something. At times, it seems like nothing is happening or maybe worse, not ever going to happen. This is one of the hardest of places to find oneself. Thankfully Scripture has something to say about this hard spot.

I hope you will join me at Woman to Woman Ministries HERE where I will share the reminder my garden brought that night to encourage my soul.

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