Rooted in Grace: Intuitive Gardening for Christian Women

93 | The Slow Drip: For the Woman Whose Harvest Is Still Coming

May 19, 2026 · 33 min · Ep 95

What do you do when you have been working faithfully at something for a long time, and the basket you keep carrying back into the house is smaller than you expected?

This week I came in from my mid-May Houston garden with three tromboncino squash, three gypsy peppers, and a handful of flat wax beans — the white green beans I grew up eating in Romania, the ones I will make into a fresh green bean soup, finished with garlic at the end, the way my mother would have made it.

A small basket. Not a feast. Enough for today.

This past Sunday, our church celebrated the Ascension of the Lord — the moment Jesus rises into the sky and the angels turn to the disciples and ask, "Why do you stand looking into heaven?" In the meantime, while we wait for his return, the Comforter is sent and the Lord prepares a place for us — a place that, I believe, will hold the flavors and smells and memories that have always made each of us who we are.

In this episode we sit in Acts 1, John 14, John 16, and Matthew 6. We let the small harvest on my counter teach us something about daily bread, the slow drip of provision, and the woman who has been faithful for a long time without yet seeing the abundance.

This week we also walk through three practical intuitive gardening practices: the Small Basket Practice, the Hidden Tending Practice, and the Daily Bread Dinner — three slow, embodied, faith-rooted ways to retrain your hands and your eyes to the SHAPE of God's economy.

It is coming. And in the meantime, today's harvest is enough.

IN THIS EPISODE:

- Tonight's actual harvest from my mid-May Houston garden: 3 gypsy peppers, 3 tromboncino squash, a handful of flat wax beans

- Why the smells of childhood get sharper in your late forties — and what that has to do with the place being prepared

- Baker Creek heirlooms, the chocolatey pink tomato, and the Romanian tomatoes still taking their time

- The tromboncino squash that should be dead from vine borer damage — and is still producing

- The Ascension space — where we actually live as Christians

- "It is to your advantage that I go" — John 16

- The place being prepared — John 14 and the meaning of *monai*

- Daily bread, manna, and the SHAPE of God's economy

THREE INTUITIVE GARDENING PRACTICES FOR THE WEEK:

The Small Basket Practice — gather only what is actually ready
The Hidden Tending Practice — tend one plant that is not yet producing, without expectation
The Daily Bread Dinner — one night this week, eat only from today's harvest

THIS WEEK'S GENTLE QUESTION:

What did you harvest today? Not what did you accomplish. What did you bring in that was enough — for today?

SCRIPTURES REFERENCED:

- Acts 1:9-11 (the Ascension and the angels' promise)

- John 14:1-3 (preparing a place)

- John 16:7 (it is to your advantage that I go)

- Exodus 16 (manna in the wilderness)

- Matthew 6:11, 25-34 (daily bread and the design of provision)

RESOURCES MENTIONED:

- Free Rooted in Grace eBook — rootedingrace.me (or comment HARVEST on Instagram)

- Rooted Reset (5-day guided return)

- Rooted in Grace print book — Amazon