Take courage,

  all you people of the land,

  says the LORD;

work,

        for I am with you,

   says the LORD of hosts,

according to the promise 

that I made you

      when you came out of Egypt.

My Spirit abides among you;

                fear not.

                      Haggai 2. 4-5

(Take courage

     in spite of circumstances

and in everything

   that the LORD 

        has laid before you today.

You are not alone.

God's profound purpose

           prevails in it,

even in that I cannot see

                   or understand,

   nothing that He cannot use

      for His glory.

There is nothing mundane

                in God's economy.)