When You send forth Your Spirit

    they are created,

and You renew

    the face of the ground.

             Psalm 104. 30

(God changes the landscape,

even the barren places,

even the impossible.

When His Spirit infiltrates,

    nothing can remain the same.

The outward circumstances

    may only appear to remain,

but God brings flourishing

    in every impossible place,

quite suddenly,

        from death to life.

Watch what God

             is about to do,

watch what He has

    already set in motion.)

O LORD,

You renew,

You restore,

You work far beyond

    what we can imagine.

May the face of the ground,

   the face of our lives,

bear Your grace.