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Watered Gardens Adapted from Joyce Rupp’s Poem
(included in her book “May I Have This Dance”).
God of openness, of life and of resurrection,
Come into this Spring season and bless us.
Look around the tight, dead spaces of our hearts
That still refuse to give you an entrance.
Bring your gentle but firm love.
Begin to lift the layers of resistance
That hang on tightly deep inside of us.
Open, one by one, those places in our lives
Where we refuse to be overcome by surprise.
Open, one by one, those parts of our hearts
Where we fight the entrance of real growth.
Open, one by one, those aspects of our spirit
Where our security struggles with the truth.
Keep us open to the different and the strange;
Help us to accept the unusual and also the ordinary;
Never allow us to tread on other’s dreams
By shutting them out closing them up,
By turning them off or pushing them away.
God of the Resurrection, God of the living,
Untomb and uncover all that needs to live in us.
Take us to people, events, and situations
And stretch us into much greater openness
For it is only then that we will grow and change.
For it is only then that we will be transformed.
Song:
A song to listen to that speaks a similar message is "Roll Away the Stone" by Tom Conry
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