Noonday Notes

Issue No. 4

June 6th, 2025

Pouring Out & Overflowing

This week I’ve been thinking a lot about Isaiah 58—not just the verse Noonday Farms was founded on (v.10), but the whole chapter. It’s a directive for what faith in action looks like: sharing food, loosening burdens, caring for others, and not turning away.

That’s what I keep seeing in the garden. God keeps pouring out—in cucumbers, in flowers, in tomatoes. But I’m also reminded that I’m being invited to pour out too. Not just in produce, but in presence. Conversations with those I bring food to. Sharing the first watermelon of the season with my neighbors. Saying “yes” when I happen to have what someone needs. Babysitting one of my favorite babies.

I often say: Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. And the garden does that—quietly, steadily, without needing applause. It grows because that’s what it was made to do. The garden is full of rhythms, as I’ve been saying each week. Giving and receiving, sowing and reaping, being poured out and still overflowing. We are not that different, you and me.

Isaiah 58 also says, “You will be like a well-watered garden, like a spring whose waters never fail.” That’s the dream. And it’s happening. We are the repairers of the breach.

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