For my birthday last year, my mom gifted me a beautiful Cala Lily plant in my favorite color, yellow.
As fall approached, the flowers and leaves started dying. I checked to see if it was a plant that would be an all year plant and it was. No matter how I tried to care for it, the leaves/flowers would slowly die. It ultimately got to the point where all was left was dirt.
I was a bit sad about it because it was so pretty and the instructions said it’s a plant that comes back annually, but at that point, it looked very dead.
I even went as far as taking some of the dirt and putting it on another plant to keeps its leaves all year, but had needed a bit more soil. As I was doing so, the spoon I was using, hit something hard, and I decided that I shouldn’t take any more of the dirt, and I would instead leave it with my orchids and still add water.
I went on a business trip and when I returned, I noticed my mom had moved it off the counter and put it beneath, almost on base heater.
There was no use. It was dead anyway, I’d just wait until spring to put something else in the pot, so I left it there.
This week, as I’ve been in a process of trying to reorganize, I saw the pot. Upon picking it up, I noticed there was a green shoot poking out of the soil.
Can you imagine my absolute amazement?
It had not been watered for a while. It had not even gotten any sunlight. But… this plant knew the season was changing and it’s starting to do what it naturally does in the right time.
A verse from Galatians 6:9 comes to mind: let us not become weary of doing good, because in the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.
Thankfully, that even while I may have given up on this plant, it had not given up, and, at the right time, it will bloom.
Is there anything in your life that you have given up for dead, and yet God is telling you not to give up yet?
He keeps showing me that He is still in control, even of things that appear dead.
Dear Heavenly Father, thank you for your love. Thank you that seasons change and that you can bring sleeping things to life. Thank you for the lessons you teach us through nature.