Arise,

walk through the length

      and the breadth of the land,

for I will give it to you.

                   Genesis 13. 17

(God does His greatest work

   in what only appears

   as the middle of nowhere.

Examine every corner,

nurture every square inch,

sow the seeds of a forest.

This is not just barren and hard dirt,

but where God strategically positions

                 every one of us

on the sacred ground of His Kingdom.

         We can be faithful here.

What is before me today?)

O LORD,

How differently would we approach

        this difficulty or task,

how differently our attempts

              or what we actually do,

     if we trusted You in this?

Help us to be faithful

   even in what is before us today,

   even in what we cannot yet see,

                   for Your glory

      and in Your Presence.

Even in this.