Sow for yourselves

        righteousness,

reap steadfast love,

break up your fallow ground,

for it is time

      to seek the LORD,

that He may come and

rain righteousness upon you.

              Hosea 10. 12

(What am I sowing,

cultivating,

and nurturing

  in the holy ground

  all around me?

The little square foot

     patch of dirt

     beneath my feet

where God has

     placed me today?

Dirt is never

           just dirt.

Righteousness --

the being, doing, listening,

following, seeking,

pursuing not my way

   but God's in this--

always reaps

        steadfast love.

Not just in baskets full,

   but forests

   of fruit-bearing trees,

as far as the eye can see,

deeper than we can know,

impacting lives

          beyond our own.

If a single righteous act

of love, grace and mercy

    can do all that.

how much more is God doing

   throughout our lives?)

O LORD,

We cannot fathom

what the day may bring.

We have but to be faithful

  in what You place

  in our hands and before us.

We plant the seeds.

You produce the results.

And You never work

    in singular outcomes,

       only eternal ones.

From You comes

   the fruit of our lives.

May Your mercy

   triumph over

   anything we face today.

May what we sow

   change the landscape

   for Your glory.

You are in our midst,

       Almighty One.

There are no ordinary days

     in Your sight.