growing

Let us not become tired of doing good. At the right time we will gather a crop if we don’t give up.
- Galatians 6:9 (NIRV)
 
Spring is a season of new beginnings. After months of cold and quiet, the earth begins to wake up again. Buds appear on trees, flowers push through the soil, and everything seems to come back to life.
This year I’m especially excited about spring because I’m planning to plant a garden again. It has probably been ten years — maybe even longer — since I last had one. I’m really looking forward to growing vegetables and enjoying food that came right out of our own backyard.
There’s something deeply satisfying about planting a garden. You prepare the soil, plant the seeds, water them, and then wait. For a while it looks like nothing is happening at all. Just dirt.
But underneath the surface, things are changing. Seeds are beginning to grow long before we ever see the first tiny sprout appear.
Faith often grows the same way.
Sometimes we go through seasons where we feel like we are simply planting seeds — acts of kindness, prayers offered for others, small steps of obedience, quiet moments spent trusting God. We may not see immediate results, and it can be tempting to wonder if anything is really happening.
But God is always at work beneath the surface.
The seeds we plant today — in our lives and in the lives of others — have a way of growing in God’s perfect timing. What looks like a quiet season may actually be the beginning of something beautiful.
Galatians reminds us not to grow weary in doing good, because in the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.
Spring reminds us that growth often begins where we cannot see it yet.
And just like a garden, the patient work of faith eventually produces something wonderful.
 
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