Late Bloomer

(Slowly but Surely You’ll Get There)

Spring Time, I’m not overly fond of the transition to spring but mostly because I’m such a fall baby that it is very hard to transition out of my warm and cozy fall tones of colored wardrobe to sweet soft cool colors and short sleeves, and there is nothing harder than leaving my pumpkin white mocha until next fall and seeing the next most popular flavor is lavender lattes… Sorry, lavender you’re no pumpkin spice! Although we must transition from season to season whether it be in the seasons in the calendar or in our life we must have changed. 

Change in Pace 

Change in Structure 

Change in Growth 

Even when change seems like the worst thing it actually can spring new life. 

Growing up I can remember my mom always encouraging me to try new things and give them a chance to blossom, but a concept I struggled with was the process in-between the growth. Especially when I felt like everyone else was in full bloom and I was still sprouting and didn’t have any petals to show off. The phrase my mom would say was, “You’re just a late bloomer.” I didn’t appreciate that back then became who likes to feel left behind? Who doesn’t want to move along with everyone else’s pace, structure, growth, and spring something so amazing everyone notices? But what I came to realize is that although it took me longer to bloom I was able to dig my roots deeper, observe others better, and slowly but surely get to the place that I had dreamed of being. And let’s be real… it took several years to grow and the growing never stops, but I’m so thankful for the layers it has taken to get to one part of my spring out. This blog is the perfect example… I knew I loved to write but I never shared it with anyone because it was not time to sprout out of the ground to show. God knew the exact time it had to be developed, watered, peeking out of the ground, budding, and then showing its true beauty.

The average flower takes about seven weeks to propagate from a seed and then into the actual flower and then it takes about another two weeks for the bloom to actually come alive and produce petals and show its full beauty. So depending on the flower it takes about nine weeks to fully show all its full colors and fragrance and to us, that would be around two months… two months for one flower… and we thought we felt like we were going in slow motion! 

Timing is something we can’t truly comprehend and if we had a choice I think we would all love to watch our lives through a time-lapse, but if we did that we would forget all the moments of victory, all the pain that made us tougher or taught us something meaningful even though it hurt, and most of all the foundation that begins the process cannot be weak or it will no develop into its full potential to impact others. Waiting sucks! But without the long cold winter before spring the flowers would not have the water it needs to grow. The breeze that blows away the fallen leaves of fall is needed to enable the trees to grow new leaves for spring. Sometimes we need to blow off the old and all it to fall in order to start something new. Each stage and season of life comes with its long and challenging stages but let’s not forget that the slow and steady make it longer in the race of life.

You’ll get there 

Change your Pace 

• Slow down if all you think about is what’s next and live in the moment 
• Speed up and take on something new if your stuck 

Change your Structure 

• Switch up your order! Yes, I love my pumpkin coffee but maybe switch to a sweet peach tea and be refreshed by herbal nods. 
• Change your habits and go exploring for something new that will push you out of your comfort zone. Something that is not natural but you could learn and be invested in so much more than normal.

Change your Growth 

• You are growing every day in every day even when you don’t see it, feel it, or get a chance to catch up to it but what you do in the stages of growth matters. 
• Are you watering your soul?
• Are you Resting in His presents? 
• Are you willing to change that atmosphere and community around you? 
• Will you be ok if He tells you to wait?

“If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant” (Anne Bradstreet) 

“Bloom where you are planted” ( 1 Corinthians 7:20-24)

“Every flower must grow through dirt.” (Laurie Jean Sennott)