...for though 

    it is a forest,

you shall clear it

   and possess it

to its farthest borders.

              Joshua 17. 18

(Even in this mess,

even in this

   really hard place,

am I faithful 

in what the LORD 

has laid before me?

Even in this

   untillable bleak place

of briars and

    hard rocky soil,

daily faithfulness 

        for His glory,

even when I can’t see

      where to step next.

God brings

   His fruitfulness here

and transforms 

              the landscape

in incredible ways.

I can’t do everything,

but I can do something.)

O LORD,

strengthen my heart

    in what is beyond me,

align what I see 

      with Your vision in this.

Help me to be

     fully faithful to You,

      no detail 

            ever insignificant,

even in the ordinary,

even now,

even in this.