The farmer who never planted

Dear friend.

Can I ask you something honest?

Is there something you’ve been meaning to do - something you feel quietly drawn towards - but you keep putting off because you don’t feel quite ready yet?

Maybe it’s a conversation. A step of service. A nudge that keeps coming back. And every time you get close to acting on it, something inside says not yet.

I sat with a verse from Ecclesiastes this week that stopped me. Chapter 11, verse 4: “Farmers who wait for perfect weather never plant. If they watch every cloud, they never harvest.”

That’s it. The whole thing.

The farmer who keeps scanning the sky - waiting for the right conditions, the ideal moment, the perfect day - never gets the seed into the ground. And if the seed never goes in, there’s no harvest. Not because the soil was bad. Not because the seed was wrong. But because the farmer was watching instead of working.

Here’s what I’ve come to believe: ready rarely comes before the step.

Calling isn’t something you feel your way into. It’s something you walk into. Peter didn’t figure out his purpose in a quiet room. He found it on a beach, mid-shift, when someone said follow me - and he went. Calling is confirmed by following, not by feeling.

John Henry Newman put it beautifully in his hymn Lead, Kindly Light: “I do not ask to see the distant scene - one step enough for me.” That’s not resignation. That’s faith.

So today - just one thing. Something small. Something faithful. Even if you’re not ready.

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Grace and peace.

Rob

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