I've been spending a lot of time in my garden lately, and it's been teaching me so much.
There's something so simple, so deeply happy about it. Watching a tomato plant that was once just a tiny plant begin to set fruit. Seeing the first little buds appear on a stem you almost gave up on. Kneeling down in the dirt and noticing — really noticing — that things are moving, changing, becoming.
It's not dramatic. It doesn't happen all at once.
Some mornings I walk outside and think, nothing looks different today. But I water anyway. I tend anyway. I show up anyway.
And then one day — one quiet, ordinary day — I look up and the whole plant has transformed. The tomatoes are there. The branches are full. And I think, when did that happen?
Life is so much like that.
We don't always see the progress we're making. We go through seasons where it feels like nothing is shifting, nothing is changing, nothing is growing. But something is always happening beneath the surface. Roots are deepening. Strength is building. You are blossoming.
Right now, wherever you are in your journey — even if it feels slow, even if you can't see the fruit yet — trust the process. Keep watering. Keep showing up. Keep going.
Happiness really is simple sometimes. It's a tomato plant doing what it was made to do. It's you doing the same.
May this week remind you that you are growing — even on the days it doesn't feel like it.
💛 Christiana
