What We Do is Very Little: A Prayer of Dorothy Day
What we do is very little.
But it is like the little boy
with a few loaves and fishes.
Christ took that little and increased it.
He will do the rest.
What we do is so little
we may seem to be constantly failing.
But so did He fail.
He met with apparent failure on the Cross. But unless the seed fall into the earth and die, there is no harvest.
And why must we see results?
Our work is to sow.
Another generation
will be reaping the harvest.
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