A Time To Plant

We’ve gotten used to quick returns.

You work.
You get paid.

End of the week.
Maybe two.

Effort in.
Money out.

Simple.
Clean.
Predictable.

After a while, we start expecting everything to work that way.

But it doesn’t.

Most of what matters won’t pay us back right away.

A marriage.
A business.
Our kids.
Our faith.

None of it runs on a weekly cycle.

You plant.
And then sometimes…

nothing.

At least nothing you can see.

That’s the part I don’t like.

Because it can feel like it’s not working.

No proof.
No visible progress.
No return.

Just showing up again.

And again.

And again.

I’ve made the mistake of walking away too early.

Not because it was wrong.

Because it was taking too long.

I wanted a paycheck
from something that was still in the ground.

But life doesn’t rush the harvest.

There’s a time to plant.
And there’s a time to pull something out of the ground.

Those are not the same thing.

So lately, I’ve been trying to stay put a little longer.

Keep doing the work.
Keep tending the soil.
Keep trusting what I can’t see yet.

Because some things are growing
long before they break the surface.

Where have you had to keep planting before you saw anything grow?

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