A Prayer for Weeding

Lord, help me weed this garden

bare before me,

for this bed is made for seeding.

But these weed roots run deep

and for all my digging,

I can never pull them clean.

The smallest root may still be left

to grow up through the dirt again.

Crippling

the fruit and flowers I've been tending,

weeds subduing everything.

Lord, help me weed this garden

bare before me.

Destroy the roots from

start to end.

Dig deeper than my trowel will take me,

let me bear fruit again.

Lord, you are Creator,

Gardener,

and Sustainer,

may this garden have life through you

amen.