If you’d told us eight years ago that we’d spend summer days slinging flowers together, building weddings, growing beautiful blooms — I doubt we’d have believed it. But God has sweetly and gently led us into this unexpected life, and we love it. 

The hard times, the pressing mortgage, the blood, sweat, and tears? They’re real, and they make up more of life than the sweet chats over armfuls of fluffy blooms and finished-project smiles, but it all goes together in the fabric of our lives to make a beautiful creation: God’s perfect plan. 

It’s the same for all of us, whether farming, ministering, putting in long office hours, teaching, firefighting, parenting, governing – there are the sweet and photograph-able moments and successes, and the slogging hard work that gets you there, but it all works together to make us into the individuals God wants us to be. 

I’m learning to lean into it, to accept it all, and embracing the grace God gives for every moment. 

Ephesians 4:7 “But grace was given to each one of us according to the measure of Christ’s gift.”