And there

you shall build an altar

    to the LORD your God...

                 Deuteronomy 27. 5

(Here?  Are you kidding me?

In this hard place,

   in this impossible situation,

   among these difficult people?

Wherever 

      the LORD places me today

             is holy to the LORD,

even the rocky terrain,

     even the miry bog

is holy ground to God

and a divinely appointed place

     to bring His name there

and worship God

            in all I do and say.

May His glory

   get all over everything.)