Well, hello there. It's Morgan Harper-Nichols here. I'm an artist and a writer, and this is a space where I turn the lens on various topics and subjects and hopes to learn something new or see something in a new way. Today's episode is called You Will Grow in Due Season. Thank you for listening. I'm working Harper Nichols.

Everything in nature grows in its season. Absolutely everything. However, often we are waiting for

things to spring to life before they are ready.

And it's difficult to wait, but it's necessary.

Because everything in nature works that way.

We can't escape the reality that we have to wait.

So when you see other people receiving the things they waited for, remember, they are in

a different season. You may be the same age, or you may have walked a similar path, but there is

no need to compare yourself to them because your life will look different. And that is a beautiful thing.

And in the same way that I in the United States may experience one season while someone in

Australia is experiencing another, in two completely different climates and seasons,

we are still able to be present where we are to the season that we are in.

So with this in mind, keep tending to the garden that is in front of you today, no matter what season that

garden is in. Keep watering the plants you have already sown. It's okay to wonder when the season will come,

when you will finally see the fruit of your labor, and it is also okay to keep going, trusting that

everything will grow in its season. And one of the great things about everything growing in its

season is that amiss the things

that aren't growing, you can turn your eyes to the things that are.

You can look past the opportunities that have yet to spring to life and look towards the ones

that have.

You can hold the tension of both, what is blooming and what is not,

and still be steady. All at once, this is a complicated and natural way to live. But throughout

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