So he called its name Rehoboth,

saying,

"For now the LORD

has made room for us,

and we shall be fruitful

                 in the land."

               Genesis 26. 22

(Faithfulness to God

always produced fruitfulness

  in dimensions

  we sometimes will never see,

         and always beyond our lives,

wherever God places us,

in whatever He gives us to do,

among whomever in unlikely places,

even in the most unexpected ways.

To bring Him glory

    in the tight spots

  and the "whatever am I doing here?"

                         kind of places.

We see only a barren landscape.

  God knows the forest it will bear.)

O LORD,

Rehoboth!

You have not just made

       room for us.

You have brought us here

   for Your profound purposes.

Help us, O LORD,

to be faithful in the every days,

even when we are

           too myopic

    to see Your hand

or to grasp Your vision

                in this place,

                in this work,

     for Your glory in it.

Bring Your fruitfulness to it.