The Grass Is Greener

Sometimes the rain has already come — the grass just hasn’t caught up yet.

In this special two-part episode of The Script Pod, we mark the beginning of a new season with Shift: Acts Church’s seasonal programme exploring what creation can teach us about transition.

First, Destiny Malcolm-Anti takes us into autumn: the changing colours, migrating birds, falling leaves and the rhythms of a season that invites us to notice, prepare and let go. Because transition is happening all around us and often within us too.

Then Pastor Matthew Herel shares The Grass Is Greener, reflecting on the tension between the “already” and the “not yet.” Christ has already won the victory, yet there are still moments when our circumstances don’t seem to reflect it. Like rain falling on dry ground, change can be happening beneath the surface long before we can see the evidence above it.

You may still feel the dryness. You may still be waiting for something to shift. But that doesn’t mean nothing is happening.

The rain has already come. The roots already know. The grass is catching up.