Beautiful words

In the places of your life where you feel like a clear-cut tree,

  right down to the ground,

  may you sense the life of God stirring in your roots.

May you practice your hope,

  develop it,

  set it into your life,

  cultivated and wild at the same time

  as you wait across the narratives of then and now and future.

May you be given a glimpse of the Gardener

  who sees the root of life still in you and

  cultivates everything that is wild and unexpected,

  hopeful and redemptive in your soul and body.

May you bring forth life you never imagined,

  a life that repairs the world at your feet."

Sarah Bessy