A Garden Prayer

            Help us, O Lord, to grasp the meaning of happy growing things, the mystery of opening bud and floating seed, that we may weave it into the tissue of our faith in life eternal.

            Give us wisdom to cultivate our minds diligently as we nurture tender seedlings, and patience to weed out envy and malice as we uproot troublesome weeds.

            Teach us to seek steady root growth, rather than a fleeting culture, and to cultivate those traits, which brighten the perennial loveliness of hardy borders.

            Thank you, God, for gardens and their message, today and always.   Amen. 

(Originally printed in the 1953 Yearbook)