...and behold,

the staff of Aaron

          for the house of Levi

had sprouted

and put forth buds

and produced blossoms,

and it bore ripe almonds.

            Numbers 17. 8

(Just in case we have any doubt

       of God's hand in this.

God specializes in

      utterly impossible things,

that which is

      beyond explaining away

that we might know absolutely

               "It's Me!")

Almighty God,

we live in the midst

           of Your glory.

Help us to recognize You

in both the spectacular

      and in what we only consider

      ordinary.

We ask You for

   Your supernatural way

                   even in this.

But then again,

          that is always the way

                 You work.