If this world has me taught me anything it’s that God built the world on resilience. Everything gets better with time if you work for it, if you want to bounce back. Everything comes back around for the better, but everything must also be resilient to the trauma, the stress, the adversity. God made the creatures of His world to be resilient against it all. He made the trees, the flowers, the grass all to be resilient of the trauma it endures in the winter. And us humans can be resilient to the trauma we endure in a lifetime, but we do it with God in our heart and coming through us as we are a vessel for Him. Every year the flowers will bloom in the spring as if they didn’t die in the winter. Every year the trees will grow brand new leaves as if they didn’t lose everything they had known in the winter. Every year the sun will come back around to shine bright as if it’s shine wasn’t dulled for cold weather. God’s people can get up and bloom again. They can get up and live as if they have never lost because loss is sometimes the best lesson from Him. They can get their shine back even when it has been dulled for months or even years.
We were built to be resilient. We were made for struggle and adversity. God will not leave you there to suffer, but He will leave you there to learn. And I think right now is a good time to know that the flowers will always bloom in the spring, the trees will gain new leaves, and the sun will shine tomorrow even if it’s cloudy.
Lord, be with us as we stumble through adversity and change, as we struggle to see the light at the end of a tunnel, and as we focus too much on the negative. You will not leave us. You will not abandon us here in this trial. We are taken care of even on our worst days. Perhaps You give the trees one more leaf than the last year. Perhaps You give the flowers a brighter hue than the year prior. Perhaps You give us clear skies and sunshine for one extra day than we had the summer before. Perhaps You are working when we don’t see it—working on the little things that make the come back. Perhaps You are the light in the darkness, the sun behind the clouds, and I would be willing to lay my life down on that.
Xoxo,
Rae☀️
“For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us.” —Romans 8:18
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