O Tree of Calvary
send thy roots deep down
into my heart.
Gather together the soil of my heart,
the sands of my fickleness,
the stones of my stubbornness,
the mud of my desires, bind them together
O Tree of Calvary,
interlace them with thy strong roots,
entwine them with the network
of thy love.
Chandran Devanesen.
At present I'm busy repairing, retrieving, restoring, reconstructing, gardens, our own and someone else's. This prayer means every tree stump removed, every square metre turned over to improve tilth, every shrub and tree pruned back to shape and fruitfulness, every weed and stone removed, becomes an inner aspiration for a renewed ecology of the spirit. No idea who the author was, but it's a prayer I've used before, and it comes and goes with the seasons of the heart.
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