Poetry

Begin Small, Then Wait

Begin with an insignificant seed
which you will have to water.
Then, watch for its tiny shoot.
Prayer begins with waiting.

Imagine your seedling a great tendril
growing like Jack’s beanstalk up, up, up,
the means by which you climb to heaven
and lift others by your rising concern.

Prayer is not a magic bean,
but the linking of earth and heaven
from which God rains fruitfulness,
blessings on the just and unjust.