Seeds for the Harvest

Unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies; it remains only a single seed. But it it dies, it produces many seeds. - John 12:24

Is there some desert, or some boundless sea,
Where You great God of angels, will send me?
Some oak for me to rend,
Some sod for me to break,
Some handful of Your corn to take
And scatter far afield,
Till it in turn will yield
Its hundredfold
Of grains of gold
To feed the happy children of my God?

Show me the desert, Father, or the sea;
Is it Your enterprise? Great God, send me!
And though this body lies where ocean rolls,
Father, count me among all faithful souls.
-Leonard Woolsey Bacon