In days to come

Jacob shall take root,

Israel shall blossom

  and put forth shoots

and fill the whole world

                   with fruit.

             Isaiah 27. 6

(That's what faithfulness

                 looks like.

Even in what appears

     a forlorn barren wilderness.

God transforms the landscape

                    completely.

Even in ways

          we may never see.

Give God

       the space to work.)