Noonday Notes

Issue No. 33

February 6th, 2026

Lately, I keep saying how easy this all feels. Not because there isn’t work, there’s plenty, but because things keep lining up. Twelve raised beds built and filled in three hours (read about that in the Mission Notes). A voicemail to my councilman’s office returned with a yes to printing 1,000 flyers for free. Julian’s Pizza saying yes to a Give Back night within hours (also see below). One text to a neighborhood thread, and having them jump in to deliver flyers and start growing food. Doors opening. People responding. The right things, at the right time.

It feels like delight. It feels like jubilee. Sound the loud trumpet y’all.

Psalm 37:4–6 keeps echoing for me. It was the scripture a couple weeks ago in the ASK afterschool program. It was read again at church this past Sunday. It is so spot on right now. And of course the reference to “noonday” isn’t lost on me.

“Delight yourself in the Lord, and He will give you the desires of your heart. Commit your way to the Lord; trust Him, and He will act. He will bring forth your righteousness as the light, and your justice as the noonday.” ESV

I’ve been reading this Psalm the way I learned to read the Big Book with my sponosr, looking for the promises. If this, then that. If we delight. If we commit. If we trust. Then God acts. Then light shows up. Not because we force it, but because it’s given.

And that’s what all of this feels like. Not something manufactured or manifested, but something growing because it’s rooted in the right soil. There’s weight to the work, but not heaviness. There’s effort, but not anxiety. It’s light because it’s aligned with the Word.

Isaiah 58 (Noonday Farms’ origin chapter) helps name why that might be. It reminds us that this kind of light doesn’t come from religious performance, but from justice. From pouring out for others. From feeding the hungry, honoring the poor, loosening what binds. Darkness turning to light. Depletion becoming fullness. Mourning shifting toward radiance. A resurrection-shaped life. Can I get an amen?

So maybe that’s what this is. Delight practiced. Commitment lived. Trust in God. Promises unfolding and justice shining like the noonday sun.

Jubilee. Right now.

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