Blooming

   Good Morning Friends!  I am thinking today about dandelions.  You know those yellow flowers that take over your yard and most people consider weeds. It's spring time right now, and everything is lush and green, blossoming, and filled with life.  But yesterday, when I looked out my front window, I was struck by a group of dandelions at the base of a tree.  They were white and fluffy, dead, completely opposite of the budding world around them.  As I looked around I began to notice that all the dandelions in my yard were this way.  They were covered in those white seeds, or had already lost them and were just a dead blackened head on the stalk. 

  But here's the thing we all know about dandelions.  Those dandelions aren't really dead and gone.  No, quite the opposite.  All those white fluffy seeds that drop off will grow more and more dandelions.  In fact, I would not be surprised if in about a week my yard is covered over in yellow flowers.  (We don't mow as often as we should, in case you were wondering.)  So how does this apply to us?

  Sometimes in life, we feel like we are in a dead zone.  We feel as if things are falling apart.  We look around and see everyone else seemingly doing great, and here we are, stuck.  But the truth is, what often looks like a wasteland is setting us up for our oasis.  If you are willing to stick with your habits, be faithful to your goals, and hold on in faith when things look empty and gone around you, you will find that pretty soon, all those things which you thought were dead and gone, are actually sprouting up into an overflow.  

  Don't grow weary and discouraged in doing good.  (Galatians 6:9) Sometimes you have to hold on in faith, knowing that while things don't look like they can grow again, God is in the habit of creating something out of nothing. (Romans 4:17)  Things may not look alive right now, but we walk by faith, not by sight. (2 Corinthians 5:7) 

  If things in your life look dead right now, stay in faith, keep taking action, and give it time.  Pretty soon, you will look up and see things are beginning to blossom.  I can't wait to see you succeed!

~K. L.W.