Praise be for gardeners, for theirs is the true life of faith:
faith expressed in the turning of the soil, and the planting of the seed,
faith in the goodness of the earth, composted and prepared,
faith that the sun will be warm, and the winds easy,
faith in the soft clouds with their promise of rain,
faith even when things go wrong, that they can be made right again,
faith in the growing, the changing, the flowering of living plants,
and faith that they will be fruitful in their season.
In such a living faith they work
to bend Creation to their own creative will.
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