Everyone's story sounds a bit similar when you run into a category of vocation. Perhaps our story is no different than the next flower-farmer. Oh well.

Hello friends, I’m Esther, and I am the owner of Kairos Flowers. I am beyond passionate about the minute aspects of growing all things beautiful. There is nothing that I love more than entering into a new season that I know I will walk away furthered, in some way.

2020 was quite the year. Many people look back at that pivotal year as something immensely detrimental. I see it as immensely crucial to this vocation I now steward. April 2020 - I was fresh out of a local Tech Center after studying Culinary Arts, with high hopes and plans of becoming a Pastry Chef. The pandemic shut the schools down, and I was placed home with no prospects for the Summer, and no idea what the Lord had in store for me. My Mom had found a lady selling Dahlia tubers on Facebook, and suggested I buy a few and try my hand at growing them. We drove out to pick them up (weeks later, I might add. We procrastinate like no other). I was the worst Dahlia grower. No idea the care needed for these astounding flowers, so I dug random holes WAY too far apart, and threw them in. Weeeeeks later, an unbelievable sea of blooms was the reward for me lackadaisical gardening skills. I spent every spare moment in my Dahlia garden, and every other spare moment, in my Mom's herb and perennial garden.... I will tell you, those gardens were WEED-FREE. It was a beautiful summer. I discovered the beauty of sowing and reaping; learning the reality of life; the way the Lord re-orders plans and brings only Good; and most of all, the way we were created to tend creation, and revel in the immaculate beauty that comes from learning to be rooted and grounded in the life we have been placed.

Fast forward to today, I am still blown-away by His goodness that year the world went crazy. My life has never been the same. In fact, it has only opened into an enveloping world of beauty, flowers, learning, grounding, pulling up weeds both in the garden and in my mind, and profound ministry. I mean, can you share flowers without someone taking an intentional moment to take in the beauty? That's ministry. That's MY ministry. Sharing beauty as I see it - as I have been so graciously allowed to see it - and testifying the work of the Lord in my life through what He has given to my care. That's a ministry that benefits everyone. From growers to those that enjoy the cut-flowers... The product of caring for the ground touches everyone's soul. And that is a story I claim for myself, and trust will only continue to be written as I sow one seed at a time, and hope for the beauty to come.

Welcome to this beautiful snippet of my life.

Esther Grummet