Many a person has found joy, piece and serenity in tending to garden plants,
We plant, weed, prune, water, and fertilize, and adore like busy little ants.
Each gardener carefully watches over our plants ensuring they grow right,
As problems arise a good gardener works to irradiate them with all their might.
In the minds eye of almost any gardener will be visions of the mature flora,
We see not the sprout that is before us, but a mature plant in its entire aura.
Each gardener has different knowledge, tools, and time to give to their plants,
Some want a garden without the work; tending is given to others in a grant.
It is the working, struggling, watering; pruning that enables a garden to grow,
One truth of the garden has always been predictable, “you reap what you sow”.
If strength fails a gardener, he pauses for a moment, and finds a place to sit.
The life long process of tending a garden never leaves room to give up or quit,
The joy is in the step-by-step process of helping the plants to safely mature,
Sometimes problems and struggles make it very hard for a gardener to ender.
There are times that life sends tribulations that quietly hide around the corner lurking,
For a gardener the hardest thing to endure is a disaster that destroys his life’s workings.
But, a good gardener will patiently tend each plant until he’s sure all life is gone,
Because as a withering plant is nurtured, sometimes new-life will miraculously spawn.
Being a gardener of souls is the greatest work of both Deity and man,
A child like a sprout comes to our garden home to live their life span.
We feed, sustain, praise, smile, hold, kiss, advise, and love each precious soul,
We vividly dream of the rich family harvests, as we set our long-range goals.
Tending to the needs of body and soul is sometimes a very labor-intensive charge,
Sometimes these duties and responsibilities seem like they’re overwhelming large.
With a garden or children, there are four things that matter above all else in the end,
Daily tending, watering with love, rich family soil, and the light our eternal father sends.
Each of these, are essential to help plants or souls to grow into a thing of beauty,
I pray we tend to souls and plants with boundless love and a since of eternal duty.
It is in the daily love and toil of today, that the rich harvest of tomorrow is reaped,
And it is a parent’s partnership with God that life’s riches blessing are steeped. |
