It's been four years since this orchid last bloomed...
While it’s been dormant, it’s been watered and kept alive in hopes it would bloom once again.
An orchid’s dormancy can last up to nine months (under the right conditions), but in order for it to re-bloom, it requires a specific combination of fertilization, air flow, humidity, and light. None of which I have had the resources to focus on nurturing up until this point in the current office environment that has become its home.
Aside from watering, nothing has changed, but I noticed back in December, a flower spike was growing. In January, there were buds. And today, I walked into it blooming. I’ve been waiting for this. I can’t express how overjoyed and excited I am. It also got me thinking…
Sometimes we go through dormant periods in our life that feel uneventful, frustrating, with no visible growth or change. Maybe we’re experiencing a silent period where we haven’t heard from God, haven’t seen him work in our lives, or answered our prayers.
This could mean God is working behind the scenes, stirring the air, increasing the light for us to adapt our environment to our needs or our needs to our environment. We just don’t know all that he’s doing on our behalf until after we see the change come to fruition and bloom.
This could mean our success, our growth, our change is not fully dependent on us. It’s dependent entirely on his will, his provision, and his blessing. After all, no thing or opportunity has been created by our hand that he hasn’t already gifted us with. There’s a relief in that – especially when there are times we’ve poured our all into something that still ends up being futile. It doesn’t depend solely on us.
But this could also mean, we could have had the change we so desperately sought, awakening from dormancy, much sooner had we recognized our needs and walked out in obedience and accountability to meeting them.
Regardless of what it could mean … here’s what it does mean. There’s hope. Change is coming.
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