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🐝 Beekeeping Is a Journey—Much Like Life

 

 

I began keeping bees about four years ago, starting with a split from one of my father’s hives and a queen bee I purchased from a local supply store. Beekeeping had always been a dream of mine. I did the research, took classes, watched countless videos—I truly believed I was ready to be a great bee parent.

 

But no amount of preparation could have readied me for what was to come.

 

I spent hours feeding the bees, splitting hives to grow my apiary, inspecting colonies, and treating them for all sorts of ailments—hive beetles, Varroa mites, failed queens. There were so many things that could go wrong. One thing I hadn’t realized: for most hives, you only harvest honey once a year—if the hive survives. Sometimes they collapse. Sometimes they fly away.

 

When a hive fails, or you get stung in the face for the third time, it’s easy to want to throw in the towel and give up. But in those rough moments, I hold on to Romans 12:12:

 

Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer.

 

So the next time you pull that golden frame of honey—be joyful. If you get stung in the face—be patient. And if you find your hive empty—be faithful in prayer to the One who holds us in his hands.