18/06/2026
It’s that time of the year – cold mornings with cool days. This weekend marks the shortest day of the year in terms of sunlight hours. We miss the sun, and so does our gardens and lawns. The lawns don’t look so great, and the cold weather causes many of our flowering plants to become dormant. The deciduous trees also look lifeless, having lost their leaves.
Despite winter with its cold mornings, something comes to life at this time – the bulbs. We have, in our garden, daffodils and jonquils flowering, as well as bluebells and snowbells. It’s amazing that the bulbs of these plants have been in the ground showing no signs of life for ten months. But the cold weather has triggered them to send out shoots, and for them to produce their beautiful flowers.
As I think of bulbs, our life can be like that; dormant and inactive due to perhaps trying circumstances or mental challenges. Then suddenly, we spring forth into life.
I am conscious, as a follower of Jesus, that many of us have come alive after a very bleak and “cold” time in our life. When we turned to Jesus, God’s Son, asking Him to save us from our sins and to lead us, Jesus took us and gave us abundant life, with purpose and peace, and where we bear good fruit to bless others. Jesus said in John 10:10b “I have come that they might have life and life to the full”.
Pastor Ian.
