Due season

There is a particular tiredness this verse is written for — not the tiredness of hard days, but of unrewarded ones. The kindness that keeps being taken for granted. The patient parenting with no visible results. The right thing done again and again while shortcuts seem to prosper. Paul names it precisely: weary in well doing.

His encouragement is a farmer’s logic. Sowing and reaping never happen in the same season, and the gap between them is not evidence that the seed failed. It is simply how fields work. “Due season” means the harvest has a date — set, not visible, and not negotiable by impatience.

The only way to forfeit it, says the verse, is to faint — to stop sowing because the field still looks bare. So this morning, keep doing the unnoticed good. Every unseen kindness is seed in the ground, and the season is coming when the ground gives it back.