He who goes out weeping,

bearing the seed

           for sowing, 

shall come home

    with shouts of joy,

bringing his sheaves

                with him.

            Psalm 126. 6

(Bring the seed with us,

     even in the barren, really steep, rocky, “I don’t want to be here,” “what am I doing here?” “I can’t breathe” kind  of hard places.   

Plant anyway,

     even among the resistant ,

     even in suffering .

Bring the name of Jesus there.

In what we

          cannot yet see,

God is bearing fruit

        and ripening it.)

O LORD,

Can we hear you now?

Can we see you now?

You are in this place,

       already set up camp

even in this wilderness.

You have strategically 

       positioned us,

for Your kingdom,

for Your glory,

that Your Word takes root

     in the lives of many.