Blessed Are the Patient

ScriptureIsaiah 30:15 (NRSVUE)

For thus said the Lord God,

the Holy One of Israel:

In returning and rest you shall be saved;

in quietness and in trust shall be your strength.

PoemBrian Zahnd, Blessed Are the Patient

A woman in the kitchen baking bread

A farmer in the field sowing seed

Both know they must trust to

Tiny miracles of fermentation and germination

Jesus says—

This is how the kingdom of heaven comes