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<v Speaker 1>Us Studios. There is a quiet sower in you that

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<v Speaker 1>has been planting seats your whole life. Not the loud kind,

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<v Speaker 1>not the kind that demands to see the harvest by morning,

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<v Speaker 1>or by next quarter, or by some deadline you set

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<v Speaker 1>for yourself in a tired moment. Just the kind that

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<v Speaker 1>puts things into the ground of your days and turns

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<v Speaker 1>away and lets the dog do its work. You have

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<v Speaker 1>been planting things even when you did not call it

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<v Speaker 1>that patience in hard conversations, kindness, on the days when

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<v Speaker 1>you were running on very little, the slow, on glamorous

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<v Speaker 1>work of showing up again and again for someone who

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<v Speaker 1>needed you, or for a version of your self you

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<v Speaker 1>were not yet certain would arrive. You have done this quietly,

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<v Speaker 1>often without things, and without ever demanding proof that any

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<v Speaker 1>of it took roots. Tonight, if you can let yourself

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<v Speaker 1>stop checking, stop digging gently at the soil of your

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<v Speaker 1>life to see if the things you planted are growing,

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<v Speaker 1>the truth is they are. They have been growing in

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<v Speaker 1>the dark where you cannot see. Roots moves lower than hope,

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<v Speaker 1>but they are moving. Some of them are just now

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<v Speaker 1>threading their way through soil you forgot. You have prepared

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<v Speaker 1>in parts of your life. You have stopped visiting. There

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<v Speaker 1>is a kind of rest that does not require seeing.

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<v Speaker 1>That is the rest offered to you here, not the

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<v Speaker 1>rest of waiting for results, but the rest of trusting

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<v Speaker 1>the unseen.

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<v Speaker 2>The rest of knowing that your sowing has meaning, whether

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<v Speaker 2>or not the harvest comes this season, whether or not

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<v Speaker 2>the harvest comes this decade, whether or not anyone ever

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<v Speaker 2>thinks to say the word thank you.

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<v Speaker 1>You are not behind the seeds, do not know your timeline.

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<v Speaker 1>The sorry is not in a hurry. The sun is

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<v Speaker 1>not in a hurry, and the quiet sower within you

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<v Speaker 1>is not failing. Only faithful, faithful in ways that do

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<v Speaker 1>not always announce themselves, faithful in the way that water

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<v Speaker 1>is faithful to a seed showing up, whether or not

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<v Speaker 1>anyone is watching. Let tonight be the kind of rest

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<v Speaker 1>that does not require proof. Let the seeds be seeds

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<v Speaker 1>a little longer. Let the dark keep doing what only

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<v Speaker 1>the dark can do. You do not have to stay

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<v Speaker 1>up counting sprouts. You do not have to send one

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<v Speaker 1>more message, write one more plan, or revise one more

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<v Speaker 1>promise into something shinier. The sower has done enough. The

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<v Speaker 1>work of sowing is finished for today. The watering will

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<v Speaker 1>happen in its own time, in its own way, through

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<v Speaker 1>hands and seasons. You cannot yet see. The harvest, if

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<v Speaker 1>it comes, will come. The harvest, if it does not

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<v Speaker 1>come in the form you imagined, will still come in

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<v Speaker 1>some form you will recognize later, when you are f

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<v Speaker 1>a enough away from it to sea. Clearly, you can rest. Now.

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<v Speaker 1>The sowar within you has done enough. The ground is

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<v Speaker 1>holding what you place there. The night is doing the rest.

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<v Speaker 1>Settle in. You have planted enough for to day.