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"The bloom's beauty comes from its budded heart that has had time to become. You can't rush what is not ready." ~ Kristianne Wargo
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And that's where so many of us stumble. Not in the growing — we're doing that. The stumbling happens when we try to speed up what God is still shaping. We see the first green of something beautiful and we want to yank it into full flower overnight. We want the testimony before the test is over. We want the fruit before the season is finished.
But that's not how any of it works — not in a garden, and not in your soul.
Ecclesiastes 3:11 reminds us, "He has made everything beautiful in its time."
Not in your time. Not when you feel ready. Not when someone else's bloom makes you feel behind. In His time. And His time has never once been late.
Think about it like this. A rosebud doesn't open because someone pulls its petals apart. It opens because the sun, the soil, and the season all come together at the right moment. You are that bud. God is the gardener. And the process you're in? It's not a delay — it's development.
The temptation is real, though, isn't it? You start doing the inner work, and something in you wants credit for it. You want people to see the change. You want validation that all this quiet wrestling has been worth it.
But when you perform growth that hasn't fully settled, you end up exhausted — holding up a version of yourself that isn't finished yet and wondering why it feels so heavy.
Some things need to stay between you and God a little longer. Not because they're secret, but because they're sacred.
"The Lord will fight for you; you need only to be still" (Exodus 14:14).
Stillness isn't passive. It's protective. It gives your roots time to go deeper so that when the bloom does open, it holds.
There's a difference between growing and performing growth. Growing is quiet. It happens in the mornings when nobody's watching, in the prayers you whisper in the car, in the choice to forgive before you feel like it.
Performing growth is louder — it's the social media post about your healing journey before you've actually healed, the declaration of change before the change has cost you anything.
You don't owe anyone a progress report on your becoming.
Galatians 6:9 says, "Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up."
The proper time. Not the premature time. Not the "I'm tired of waiting" time. The proper time. And that harvest? It's worth the wait.
The K.I.S.S. ~ Let it unfold!So what does it look like to let your becoming stay unhurried this week?
1. Resist the Urge to announce, perform, or prove your growth — hold it quietly this week and let it deepen.
The next time you feel the pull to share your progress with the world, pause and ask yourself: Am I sharing because this is ready, or because I need someone to tell me it's real?
Your growth doesn't need an audience to be valid. God sees every inch of it. That's enough for now. Journal it instead. Pray over it. Let the roots go one layer deeper before you invite the wind.
2. Practice Patience with your own process by choosing one area where you stop pushing and simply allow.
Maybe it's your prayer life — you've been forcing discipline when what you really need is surrender. Maybe it's a relationship you keep trying to fix on your own timetable.
Pick one thing this week where you consciously take your hands off the wheel and say, "God, I trust Your pace more than my plan."
Patience isn't giving up. Patience is giving over.
As the psalmist wrote, "Be still before the Lord and wait patiently for him" (Psalm 37:7).
Practice that stillness. Let it teach you something.
3. Trust God's Timing for your reveal is better than yours — and rest in the waiting.
Rest doesn't mean nothing is happening. Rest means you believe so deeply in the Gardener that you can stop trying to do His job. Think of it this way: a seed doesn't strain to become a tree. It simply stays planted and lets the process do its work. You are planted, not stalled. Hidden, not forgotten.
"A bloom forced open by human hands will wilt by morning. A bloom opened by the Son will stand through every season." ~ Kristianne Wargo
Rest in that. Your reveal is coming — and it will be breathtaking because it will be ready.
Impatience kills more growth than failure ever will. Failure just means you tried. Impatience means you didn't give what you tried time to become what it was meant to be. And you — the woman reading this right now — you are becoming something. Don't rob yourself of the fullness of it by rushing the reveal.
Let the bud be a bud. Let the roots do their work. Let the quiet season finish what it started.
Because when that bloom finally opens — and it will — it won't be forced. It won't be fragile. It will be the kind of beauty that only comes from a woman who trusted the process, stayed planted, and let God do what only God can do.
"Be present. Be incredible. Be YOU!!!"
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