Blooming season
Spring has sprung and it is gorgeous. We've been in our current neighborhood for seven years. There are two trees down the street that bloomed with gorgeous white flowering blooms the year we moved in. Since then, when I go for a walk around the neighborhood, I have looked for the same trees to bloom every spring. They haven't. Until this year. And they are as beautiful as the first time I saw them bloom seven years ago. But I waited seven years to see them bloom again! The other similar trees bloom faithfully every spring. But for some reason, these two side-by-side trees only bloom every seven years. It got me thinking. There are dormant stages in our spiritual life, too. We don't always see the "bloom" in our own lives. We give our all, obey the Lord best we can, wait on Him, step out in faith, and still no "flowers." What is happening during those dormant years? I have no idea, really. But I do know that God makes every tree for a purpose an