Sandra McCracken\u2019s beautiful hymn \u201cIn Feast or Fallow,\u201d<\/a> which is quickly becoming my prayer as I prepare for giving birth. (Sorry, I tried to stop talking about it. I really did.)<\/p>\nHappy Thankful Tuesday to you. Hope you are as moved by these lyrics as I have been:<\/p>\n
In Feast or Fallow<\/h3>\n
When the fields are dry, and the winter is long
\nBlessed are the meek, the hungry, the poor
\nWhen my soul is downcast, and my voice has no song
\nFor mercy, for comfort, I wait on the Lord<\/p>\n
In the harvest feast or the fallow ground,
\nMy certain hope is in Jesus found
\nMy lot, my cup, my portion sure
\nWhatever comes, we shall endure
\nWhatever comes, we shall endure<\/p>\n
On a cross of wood, His blood was outpoured
\nHe rose from the ground, like a bird to the sky
\nBringing peace to our violence, and crushing death\u2019s door
\nOur Maker incarnate, our God who provides<\/p>\n
In the harvest feast or the fallow ground,
\nMy certain hope is in Jesus found
\nMy lot, my cup, my portion sure
\nWhatever comes, we shall endure
\nWhatever comes, we shall endure<\/p>\n
When the earth beneath me crumbles and quakes
\nNot a sparrow falls, nor a hair from my head
\nWithout His hand to guide me, my shield and my strength
\nIn joy or in sorrow, in life or in death<\/p>\n
In the harvest feast or the fallow ground,
\nMy certain hope is in Jesus found
\nMy lot, my cup, my portion sure
\nWhatever comes, we shall endure
\nWhatever comes, we shall endure<\/p>\n
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