flourish | to grow luxuriantly; prosper; thrive
When thinking about this pregnancy, sweet baby g, & motherhood, the word “flourish” has been so heavy on my heart.
I pray he flourishes. Even in the womb I pray he isn’t only growing, but he’s growing luxuriantly. That he would be born and thrive. That he would grow up and be planted in the house of the Lord and flourish all of his days knowing the love and power of our God.
I pray that I flourish in motherhood. Not some crazy ideal of what I think motherhood should look like, but that I’d flourish and become the exact mama little man needs. That motherhood would develop and flourish things in me. That the thing I was born to do- by the grace of God I want to flourish in all that it is. The good the bad. It all.
“The righteous will flourish like a palm tree, they will grow like a cedar of Lebanon, planted in the house of the Lord, they WILL flourish in the courts of our God.” Psalm 92:12-13.
For something to grow and flourish, there has to be planting. There is a prerequisite to flourishing. A seed isn’t dropped on the ground and boom it flourishes. Planting is required.
Planting is the dirty, dark, hard, lonely, silent, messy, work. It’s the planting seasons where the magic happens. Its the sowing that make flourishing possible. The season of us trying to get pregnant was the planting for me. The details are for another time but let me tell you… if you’re faithful to plant…. flourishing is promised. PLANTED in the house of the Lord … they WILL flourish in the courts. When the planting happens, it sometimes feels like you’re being crushed, tormented, isolated, smothered, BUT thats just the fertile soil piling on top of you.
Planting you.
Positioning you.
PREPARING you.
FOR the FLOURISHING.
So for my baby shower, I wanted to include this word. And honestly, I was so overwhelmed with the word tied into the details. They decorated with lots of beautiful greenery, had the best word of encouragement spoken over me and the baby, and the favor was a Christmas ornament with the word beautifully scripted and a sprig of greenery inside it. My heart was that every girl take home a reminder to flourish- in whatever season you may be in.. you can and will flourish.
XO,
I’m still not over this shower. How cute is everything?!
