When everything feels dark and still, it's easy to believe the story is over. But a seed in the ground doesn't experience its burial as death — it experiences it as becoming.
There is a difference between being buried and being planted. Buried things are meant to stay hidden. Planted things are meant to grow.
God is a gardener. He knows the difference between what needs to be removed and what needs to be cultivated. He knows which seasons call for pruning and which call for patient tending.
If you are in a hard season right now — a season that feels like loss, like endings, like too much silence — I want to gently offer this: you may be in the ground, but you are not forgotten. You are not buried. You are planted.
John 12:24 says, "Unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit." The dying is not the end. It is the beginning of something the seed could never have imagined.
Hold on. The season will turn. And when it does, what grows from this place will be more beautiful than you can see right now.