Sow for yourselves

          righteousness,

reap steadfast love,

break up

     your fallow ground,

for it is time

  to seek the LORD

that He may come

and rain righteousness

                upon you.

             Hosea 10. 12

(What is before me

               in this day?

What am I seeking to sow,

what am I hoping to reap?

Have I considered

      God's way in this

or the abundance of land

   around me left untouched,

   abandoned to weeds,

even this impenetrable clay,

       riddled with rocks?

May we sow, reap,

   and seek rightness,

justice, virtue,

deliverance, redemption,

and the welfare and blessing of

  those God places on our path.

And to bring the name

     and grace of Jesus there.

We see just dirt,

    but God alters

            the landscape.)

O LORD,

Please align our vision to Yours

that we would grasp ministry

in the yet untilled ground

            around us,

that which only appears

   as ordinary or difficult.

It is not so much

the landscape that needs altering

     as much as our hearts.

Compel us to join You

   in sowing, cultivating

   and preparing Your way

                 even in this.