And Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel,

"Inquire first

   for the word of the LORD."

                        1 Kings 22. 5

(First response,

       not last resort.

"It didn't even occur to me

     to ask the LORD about this."

Even in this,

His purposes are

             deeply embedded,

that which would astonish us,

   His extraordinary

   on the most ordinary of days.

Mundane is never in God's dictionary).