⭐️⭐️⭐️ Reflection ⭐️⭐️⭐️

“And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.” — Galatians 6:9

Yesterday, I went to a you-pick farm, and I assumed that the watermelons I picked were ripe. I picked two watermelons and came home expecting to reap the harvest of enjoying a sweet, red watermelon.

But when I cut into one of them, it was totally the opposite.

It wasn't ripe. It wasn't red. There were seeds inside of it, and it smelled like a watermelon, but it had not fully developed.

And that's when I started thinking about seedtime and harvest.

It's not always what you see is what you get.

What I got was what appeared to be a watermelon, but it had not fully developed. Although the seed had been sown and the watermelon had grown, apparently the harvest had not happened yet.

And as I continue to grow in my life, I'm realizing that what you sow today may not harvest today.

There's a time and a season for everything.

For all my life, I thought when I was doing things, Okay, I did this, so this is going to happen.

But what I'm learning is that it doesn't happen like that.

True sowing in good ground requires patience. You have to wait. You have to know that if you faint not, at some point you will reap the harvest, but there's no designated time or day that says when that harvest will come.

And even when you get tired of waiting, you have to wait some more.

That watermelon made me realize something else.

Something can look like what you've been waiting for and still not be ready.

There were seeds.

It smelled like a watermelon.

It looked like a watermelon.

It had grown into a watermelon.

But it wasn't ready to be enjoyed as the harvest I was expecting.

What I saw was real, but it had not fully developed.

And sometimes I think that's where patience becomes difficult. You can see something happening. You can see what looks like the thing you've been waiting for. You can see evidence that the seed has produced something.

But seeing it doesn't mean it's time to harvest it.

That watermelon still needed time.

And I'm learning that sometimes what I've sown needs time too.

I can't decide that because I've done something today, I'm supposed to receive the outcome tomorrow. I can't determine harvest time simply because I believe I've waited long enough.

I have to sow.

I have to trust.

I have to be patient.

And I have to wait.

Because transactional and performative outcomes are not the outcomes from truly sowing seed. Those are only conditional and temporary.

True sowing requires me to trust that what has been planted in good ground will produce what it is supposed to produce in due season.

Yesterday, I thought I was bringing home my harvest.

Instead, I brought home a reminder:

Just because I can see it doesn't mean it's ready.

Sometimes, it simply needs more time.

And if I faint not, when the season is right, I will reap the harvest.

— LeYonce

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