Noonday Notes

Issue No. 36

February 27th, 2026

My to-do list has gotten a little out of hand. I have a feeling I’m not the only one. You know who you are. Avoiding the menial, mundane, and the “it won’t take that long but yet you don’t do it” tasks.

Perhaps Lent has made me hyperaware of self discipline, not sure, but this week I realized, the things I am putting off need to be done out of obedience. Noonday Farms is a calling, not just some fun passion project. It is work, responsibility, and stewardship the Lord has entrusted to me. Not a burden, but a gift.

It’s like when Simon Peter obeys Jesus and lets down his nets to then have them so full of fish the boat begins to sink (Luke 5:1-10).

This week in a women’s Bible study, we were talking about how we often feel closer to God in seasons of pain and suffering. Pain may wake us up to God’s presence, but perhaps obedience walks us back into relationship with Him.

Obedience is a gateway to intimacy with God. And it starts with trust. I have handed over my life and my will to the Lord which means I trust Him with it. And because I trust Him, I believe that when I am obedient or willing to comply (any Wilco fans?),; when my heart, my hands and my body are in alignment with Him, I am free.

But obedience has two sides. One side is surrender and the other side is “Amy, stop pressing snooze and get to work”. Do the taxes. Write the grants. Finish the board minutes. Enter the harvest data from the last four weeks.

The things that feel small and easy to push off are often the ones where obedience is waiting for us.

Farming preaches this too. Sure it’s fun to harvest tomatoes in May, but that harvest only comes because of obedience in March (March 7th to be exact, come plant with us).

There is trust and there is work. There is surrender and there is showing up. It’s a both/and world.

We trust God with the growth while we obediently tend what He has placed in the soil of our lives. Net drop or mic drop? That last line felt pretty good.

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