06/27/2024
Life lessons: sometimes we need a dry season
Five yeas ago, I decided to stop watering my garden. It was an act of faith that God knows better than I on when the plants need water and when they don’t. Since implementing this idea, I’ve observed that when plants don’t have water on the surface it provokes them to drive the roots deep into the ground. When that happens the plant can withstand longer periods without rain as well as tap into the nutrients that allow the plant to endure.
This year my plants have been hammered with all sorts of issues yet I’m still bringing in baskets of food. The blight has been one of my biggest issues and I got to thinking, if we had rain or if I had been watering this whole time these plants would be toast. Also, if I had been watering everyday then stopped for a couple of weeks these plants would be dead. Instead, I’ve learned to trust His process and let the plants benefit from the dry weather. I’ll be honest, a part of me was starting to get a little nervous. I knew we needed rain soon or the plants would start to struggle. Last night I heard that beautiful sound, rain. There is something special about a good rain after a time of hot dry weather.
I started thinking about this idea and how we have times in our life where things feel dry. We ask God why, and even question His wisdom. However, if we had rain everyday our roots would be surface and our ability to draw nutrients, limited. It is in those seasons of drought where we see what we are capable of and in this process dig deeper to places we didn’t know existed. Don’t be afraid of the dry seasons. God may be tending to something in you that requires it and provoking you to dig deep. Then, when the rains come, there is a deep gratitude that only comes after a season of drought.
