Derek Cook’s Reviews > Year of Wonders > Status Update

Wax scents, damp stones, empty pews. I pictured the faces that had filled each one…I stood there, willing a prayer to form for them. But nothing came.

Good yield does not come without suffering, it does not come without struggle, and toil, and yes, loss. Each one of you has cried for the crop blighted by drought or pest. Cried, as you did what you knew you must, and ploughed each plant under, so that the soil could be renewed in the hope of the better season coming. Cry now, my friends, but hope also! For a better season will follow this time…trust in God!