It’s Time to Bloom, Let’s Repot!
It’s Blooming Season!
I’m not sure if you’re like me, but at the beginning of quarantine, I started new hobbies, added to the hobbies I already had and revisited hobbies ideas that I once toyed with. One being, plants, flowers, and developing my green thumb. My maternal grandmother always had plants around the house. It was nothing to wake up to the sight of plants getting their weekly time in the bath.
I always admired that, but when I started, I would quickly kill any plant or flower that I attempted to mother. Whelp, quarantine changed all that! I finally became a successful plant mama and they have been not only alive for over a year, but actually thriving. To the point where I have had to repot and trim because they were growing out of control!
My plant babies include, a golden pothos, a money tree, and little fiddle leaf, and pink syngonium, commonly called a pink arrowhead plant! She is my baby, I affectionally call her Pink Girl. She is gorgeous and just recently, she has been blooming beautifully!
Pink Girl has always been beautiful. When I first got her, I repotted her and she was doing wonderful. I noticed around April of this year, she still looked beautiful but her pink color but not as vibrant; she seemed to stop growing. I watered her more, pruned leaves, rotated her for the adequate amount of sunlight based on her variety. But she seemed to stop growing. Then my mom suggested repotting her. I’m not sure why I didn’t think about that before. I believe I was waiting to see growth on the outside before even considering a repotting issue.
DO YOU NEED TO REPOT?
To my chagrin, when I took her out the pot, her roots were curled and growing around the perimeter of the pot! She had no where to grow. She had outgrown the pot that she was in. In order for her to continue to grow and bloom into the all she was destined to be, she needed to be repotted!
This was so profound to me. The fact the smaller pot didn’t kill her, but she wasn’t able to flourish and grow. This is the indicative of some of our lives right now. We’re not dead but we’re not growing.
Pink Girl in April
Pink Girl in June 21
The noticeable difference in just two months is shocking to me! In the images, you can see in April more of her leaves were rolled up, the color was not nearly as vibrant. Now, in June, just under two months later, the bloom she achieved is amazing. All it took was repotting. We must get out of situations that is not allowing us to fully bloom! Nothing changed other than the pot she was in! It was not an environment that allowed for her to show who she truly was! We know the correlation of a garden, and our spiritual lives are not coincidental! God has been creating this since the beginning! We are a garden! Full of beauty, potential, fruit, seed, fertile soil, life…whew!!!!
We need to be repotted. We have outgrown the situation, the person, the job, the relationship, the mindset and it is stifling and hindering our growth. This has been going on for a while now, but because you still have a little life, a little patience regarding that thing, you don’t realize that you’re not growing at your optimal level and height. You have outgrown where you are, and there is more to be tapped into. Let’s repot!
GROWTH SPURT OR STUNTED GROWTH
This doesn’t have to be a scary thing. It just requires your ability and willingness to do some self-reflection to determine when is the last time you have experience a new leaf, a growth spurt? It’s going to require some work, it’s going to require you getting your hands dirty. It’s going to require more direction and guidance to reestablish your ground in new, fertile, productive soil.
What have I been doing? Have I been tending to my garden? What needs to be removed? These are just some of the questions that we can ask ourselves as we begin to repot for growth, full bloom, mass maturity, and full beauty to be realized. Taking the time to stop and reevaluate what you’re doing is needed in our lives, you may even need to Reset and get Clarity to determine if you have been tending to your soil and if not, what to do and most importantly, where to start!
DOES IT JUST “LOOK GOOD?”
I experienced this just a few weeks ago when I was doing yard work with my husband. We were in the process of laying new mulch to add some color and aesthetics to our back yard when I realized before we can lay down this mulch, we have to first remove the years of old pine needles, leaves and debris. For years, he would just blow the leaves to the side, but we never thought to bag them up and get rid of it….maybe once. (lowers eyes in shame)
Blowing the leaves to the side, made the yard “look” good, but it was soo much junk sitting in disguise. What have you allowed to stay and give the appearance of one thing but underneath it all, it is a mess? Take time today to evaluate what in your garden needs to go as you begin to repot and plant those things that will cultivate your growth, purpose and destiny!
This will be so worth it and I believe a necessary step in our lives, our spiritual lives if we desire to see growth and to experience the fullness that God has in store for us. Lets evaluate and repot so that we take full bloom and thrive, not just survive!
Let’s talk about it in the comments! Have you been blooming? Have you been thriving or just surviving? My prayer today, is that you take the necessary steps to BLOOM!
