Somewhere in that pocket of time that exists between Houston’s “winter” and “summer” a field of Bluebonnets spring up and takes our breath away.

We’ve heard the expression “stuck between a rock and a hard place?” That stuck position can actually offer you a Bluebonnet moment. A bluebonnet moment is a brief, beautiful season of peace or joy that pops up in the middle of life’s chaos.

Let’s face it: Houston doesn’t do winter well. We rarely experience any sort of weather that could be deemed “wintery” by Yankee standards. I can verify this as a former New Yorker.

However, when we do get a chill, the humidity that hangs in our gulf air freezes and cuts through our warmest coats—coats that we get to wear once or twice a year (maybe). Our summer permeates most of the calendar year. We keep Blue Bell ice-cream in business because of this and, coincidentally, a northern state’s “summer” lasts for about as long as a scoop of vanilla ice-cream would on a Houston sidewalk--not that long.

We do enjoy our snapshots of fall, and our farms give us fun pumpkin patches and hay mazes, but we are known for those stretches of Texas that God paints blue. Plains filled with Blue Bonnets greet us in springtime. It’s that “stuck” place between the harshness of our winters and the brutality of our summers, and it’s splendid.

We need these restorative reprises of time in our lives. It’s a moment that ignites our memory of past ones or gives us gumption to keep moving til we hit the next one.

“For the joy set before Jesus He endured the cross." | Hebrews 12:2

Even Jesus had Bluebonnet moments. Moments with friends. Laughter at dinner tables. Healing and hope along dusty roads. But He also knew the hard road He had to walk—for our redemption.

Life has seasons. Some are hot and heavy. Some are cold and lonely. But spring always comes. And when it does, don’t rush past it. Pause. Soak it in. Let it remind you that God is at work in every part of your story. Seasons set in motion how life operates: things must die in order for rebirth.

This will hopefully help you and I when we are in our respective seasons that don’t feel splendid but are somehow “good (Rom. 8:28).” We are on a journey and the road is long but there are Bluebonnet moments along the way. When they greet you, take some time to sit a spell and wonder in His glory!

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