Our story

Abiding Blooms began years before I ever knew I wanted a business. It was 2015. I was 9 months preggo with my third child and past due…again. One early November day, I sat outside our townhome with a small bag of tulips I had picked up from Home Depot. I was pretty discouraged that I hadn’t met my new little girl yet. But if I wasn’t going to give birth, then I also wasn’t going to sit around wallowing. As I struggled to bend over my big belly to dig 6 inches into the soil, God met me. Together, we planted hope. Hope for a new baby to arrive, hope for a new perspective on waiting, hope for peace in God’s timing. Two long weeks later, we met our beautiful baby girl. Life moved faster than ever. Days bled into weeks and weeks into months. Then, almost unaware to me, spring arrived.

I remember walking by the front door and noticing a bit of color outside. It was the tulips, bursting into their own kind of glory in their season. Bright petals in a variety of pinks, purples, and yellows. All with long reaching stems and bold dark green leaves. How stunning!

I had long since forgotten about those bulbs tucked beneath the soil. But at that moment, I reflected on planting day. I was so sad to still be pregnant, yet the waiting proved to be worth it. All things are in HIS timing. Seasons come and seasons go. Flowers aren’t always in bloom. Sometimes the roots are developing unbeknownst to the world above. The tulip became an analogy for me that day. In my waiting, I need to dig deep and cling to the Rock with my roots. I thought of all the effort those bulbs went through to produce blooms so eye catching! Much in the same way, my life is like a tulip. Seasons of necessary darkness, alone with my God produce true life and beauty.

Some dark years followed that day. But in 2021, Abiding Blooms was founded. Founded on the Rock. Digging into His supplies. Depending on His timing. The seasonality of flowers you’ll find here reflect my spiritual life with God. As He moves, I move. Where He goes, I go. As I strive to live, as John put it in John 15, abiding in the Vine. And so, to some, the tulip may be just a flower that comes and lives for a short time and dies. But to me, it’s a spiritual reminder of the sacredness of contentment in every stage of growth and the importance of always depending on Him.

And so, I plant tulips…