Growth takes…
Another handful of beautiful cherry tomatoes this morning;
And as I picked them I realised that I planted the thriving bush they are growing on, not this season but last.
That I picked a whole heap of split, not quite ripe cherry tomatoes from it last year. As well as many dropped and half eaten by bugs on the floor.
That I watered and fertilised it and tended to the soil around it.
That I ripped out everything around it that was finished growing and felt somehow that it was not done.
That it sat, a dormant twig, being tended to for months.
Before turning green and growing up and out and across into another bed.
Growth takes time. Growth takes struggle.
It takes commitment, support, awareness, reflection, grit and resilience. It also takes time.
Times when you can see the path and what you need to do now and next. When you get to enjoy fruit.
Times when you are in the dark and wondering if you will ever take a step forward again. When invisible things are happening under the surface.
Growth is both. Both are required. And sometimes when we are doing all of the things and feeling stuck in the dark, the only thing missing is time.
