Indoors and Outdoors — Waiting for the Right Season
- OakvilleJoe
- Mar 19
- 1 min read
What belongs outdoors in summer has been carefully kept alive indoors through winter.
These geraniums may be inside for now, but they still need what living things need: sunlight, warmth, water, fertilizer, and tender loving care. And they are responding. One pot is producing more and more buds each week, as though it senses that a new season is near.
Perhaps it is the longer daylight after spring forward. Perhaps it is simply the quiet signal that spring is on the way.
But as the one caring for them, I have to look beyond the buds and check the weather. Here in Ontario, spring officially arrives tomorrow, yet the forecast still speaks of rain, flurries, and even ice pellets. So my message to these eager geraniums is: no rush. Your time to shine outdoors will come. Until then, I will keep caring for you indoors.
There is something spiritual in this too. We often want the next season to come quickly. We long for wider spaces, brighter days, and open doors. But God, our wise Tender, knows the timing better than we do. He keeps us, prepares us, and grows us, even when we feel tucked away for a while.
What seems like a delay may actually be protection. What feels like waiting may actually be preparation.
“For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven.” — Ecclesiastes Chapter 3 verse 1
May we trust the Lord’s timing, receive His care, and be ready to bloom when He says the season is right.
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