I was no prophet,

  nor a prophet’s son,

but I was a herdsman

and a dresser of sycamore figs.

But the LORD took me

   from following the flock,

and the LORD said to me,

         “Go prophesy...”

                   Amos 7. 14-15

(God uses us 

       right where we are,

those who are

         faithful to Him

in the most ordinary days

for His most profound purposes,

the extraordinary of which

     we are never aware.)

O LORD,

Help us to be faithful

   and fruitful in the now,

not so obsessed 

             by the next.

You have strategically 

         placed us,

no task insignificant,

no small obedience,

all for Your glory

    and in Your name.