OUCH!!!
(My Father is the gardener)
Wife went into the garden with loppers and secateurs in hand,
She had bought a new pair of trimmers so they would be nice and sharp
A breeze preceded her into the garden
As if it was calling
“Watch out”
The birds flew out from their roosts, nests, climbers and rose bushes
quivering with fright!
The dead leaves and branches
Took the first hit
The first cut contrary to belief was not the deepest
As she ploughed devastation to whatever was at hand
All that effort to grow strong branches,
’gone’
in a single blow
All the fruit and flowers bore
Last year
‘forgotten’
Yesterday’s harvest on the ground,
Yet unbelievably things began to grow
New shoot, new leaves
Where once dead branches draped
More flowers, fruit, berries grew than ever before
“I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener.
He cuts off every branch
that bears no fruit,
while every branch that does bear fruit, He prunes, so that it will be even more fruitful.
You are already clean because of the word God has spoken to you.
If you want to know more
go read chapter and verse
John 5:15
but please don’t read it just before you’re let loose on my prize roses
She’s already
Been and gone and done!
(My Father is the gardener)
Wife went into the garden with loppers and secateurs in hand,
She had bought a new pair of trimmers so they would be nice and sharp
A breeze preceded her into the garden
As if it was calling
“Watch out”
The birds flew out from their roosts, nests, climbers and rose bushes
quivering with fright!
The dead leaves and branches
Took the first hit
The first cut contrary to belief was not the deepest
As she ploughed devastation to whatever was at hand
All that effort to grow strong branches,
’gone’
in a single blow
All the fruit and flowers bore
Last year
‘forgotten’
Yesterday’s harvest on the ground,
Yet unbelievably things began to grow
New shoot, new leaves
Where once dead branches draped
More flowers, fruit, berries grew than ever before
“I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener.
He cuts off every branch
that bears no fruit,
while every branch that does bear fruit, He prunes, so that it will be even more fruitful.
You are already clean because of the word God has spoken to you.
If you want to know more
go read chapter and verse
John 5:15
but please don’t read it just before you’re let loose on my prize roses
She’s already
Been and gone and done!