Because It Matters, Because We Matter

 

The LORD will fulfill

  His purpose for me.

Your steadfast love,

          O LORD,

  endures forever.

      Psalm 137.8

(Even in this hard place,

the fog,

the mundane,

the "what am I doing here?"

   God is working in us

               and through us.

His redeeming is

   seamlessly woven,

the stitches invisible

    and incredibly strong.

This confusing situation,

this difficult work

   we are struggling with,

matters far more

        than we can know.

God completes

    and fulfills it.

Faithfulness

    just keeps doing

   what God has put before us.

Even if no one ever notices,

even reads it, hears it,

tastes it, uses it, sees it,

   or remembers it,

God's kingdom has been

     changed by it.

And so have we.

God knows exactly

  what we have been up to.

And He pours

  His goodness all over it.)

O LORD,

What has been made possible

   by our faithfulness

   in this never-ending task,

   this thankless job,

   this struggle,

even by a work well done?

You know, Almighty One.

You see it in light of eternity.

Help us this very day

  to do all things with

             excellence,

  as much as we are able.

Because You rejoice in it.

And that is always enough.