Written during a Sunday message last year:

Oh Sower
Virginia Salter

Oh, Sower,
sow your seed
intent upon good fruit
and I’ll prepare the soil.
Seek the fertile,
seek the tilled,
seek to reconcile the stony heart.

Sow in love,
sow in faith,
sow with hope of harvest.
Let Me provide the growth
through the tests
that life can bring.

Let not the cares of the world,
delight in riches,
desire for other things,
be thorns that keep you from your planting,
from your hoping,
from your living in faith revealed.

Instead,
move forward,
as living water,
upon the soil
finding its way through,
around, the rocky crags,
jagged stones,
mire of bogs,
and waned desire.

© July 16, 2000