Late Bloomers

There are these two trees in my front yard that when we moved to this house we thought were dead. It was Spring time and they showed no signs of life. We waited and waited until mid Spring and still nothing. We finally decided we should get them cut down. It is not a good idea to have huge, dead trees in your front yard in Southeast Texas... especially with all the hurricanes! A neighbor heard that we were going to cut them down and told us that they were were late bloomers and they would bloom. It was hard to believe, but we decided to wait and see.

Here is a picture of the two trees right now.

Sure enough, the trees did begin to bloom and they were beautiful! Even though I know they are going to bloom it still amazes me every year.

I love how God uses everything to speak to His children. He uses nature a lot to teach me things. One day, I was looking at these trees and thinking about how close they had come to being cut down all because of what we could see on the outside. We couldn't see the life that was on the inside. It made me think how it is that way in our lives many times. It may not look like much is happening in our lives, but God is doing a work on the inside of us. In His perfect timing our lives will begin to "bloom."

If you look closely at the picture above you can see that these two trees are the only trees on our street that are not blooming. God showed me that when our lives look "dead" we can be tempted to look around and compare ourselves with others. We can't do this because God has created each one of us to be unique. He has a special and unique plan for each one of our lives. If we stay rooted in Him and trust Him we will "bloom" at just the right time. God's timing is perfect!