I {LOVE} Sunday::to pray to the LORD of the harvest...

Then he said to his disciples,  “The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few;  therefore pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest  to send out laborers into his harvest.”
~ Matthew 9:37-38 ESV

{Photos::corn, sugarcane, rice fields, around the big Lake O, South Florida}

As far as the eye can see...

It's one of my favorite drives through this native state of mine - past fields of corn and sugarcane and through a handful of struggling farming communities without shopping malls and overpasses and multiple exits to fantasy lands.

It's where life is real - where we come face to face with the poverty of rural life and where the consequences of sin can be seen in the wandering souls held captive behind prison's coils of razor-wire...

...surrounded by the beauty of Creation in the rich black muck around the Big O where sugarcane flourishes and thick, rain-nourished carpets of green rustle in April's breezes...

...as far as the eye can see. 

But more than anything else, it's a drive that leads me to people I love dearly - and the newest sweet miracle in all creation...

Wyatt Michael Orin Hunter{Isn't he perfect?}

And now we thank you, our God,
and praise your glorious name. 1 Chronicles 29:13 ESV

A month of gratitude::day seven...

 





 

As I count God's good gifts with Ann in a grateful community this Monday, I'm thankful for... 

...eyes and ears to behold wonder, capture music's timbre and delight in my beloveds

...a gospel-saturated, Word-infused Sunday morning message

...the patience and kindness and generosity of God's people

...hearts knit together in the love of Christ {bind us together, Lord}

...delightfully cool weather and pink socks and sweaters

I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called, with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. There is one body and one Spirit—just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call—one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all. Ephesians 4:1-6 ESV

{Photos} crop dusters glide over sugar cane fields, and the sugar cane processing plant in Muck City