Noonday Notes

Issue No. 21

October 24h 2025

There’s a deep, steady joy that comes with the first harvest. And with service. This week, I felt both. The familiar rhythm of seed to harvest, of pouring out and being filled back up.

There’s joy in watching food grow, but there’s another kind of joy that comes in sharing what’s been grown. Delivering those first shares this week, handing over bags of greens and flowers, left me feeling like I was participating in something much bigger than myself. A cycle of generosity rooted “in the garden”, starting with the soil and extending out through every hand that tends, gathers, and gives.

Maybe what I’m also feeling is the excitement of beginning again. It’s good to be back in the flow of growing and giving, back in the work that fills me up even as it pours me out.

What I also noticed this week is how being of service seems to open more doors to serve. It wasn’t just the food deliveries. It was other chances that found me, invitations to show up and give of myself in small ways. And to say yes. Each yes seemed to lead to another, and in all of it there was a sense of abundance. That the more we give, the more we’re given to give.

Service, in its truest form, doesn’t deplete us. It roots us more deeply in love. Per usual our Brother Paul comes through with the Word.

“But even if I am being poured out as a drink offering upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice and share my joy with you all.” Philippians 2:17 NASB

There’s something sacred in that picture. Being poured out and yet still rejoicing. Farming has a way of teaching that rhythm. That there’s joy found not in holding on, but in giving away. And more, not less, will flow.

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