Learning to Grow Slow is an unedited prayer-poem I wrote in just five minutes. I hope this prayer-poem inspires you today.
Today’s post is based on the prompt for Five Minute Friday. Today’s prompt is “Slow,” and here is my prayer/poem.
Learning to Grow Slow
Father God,
I’m learning to grow slow
with your help.
I know your thoughts and ways
are higher than mine
and you have the best for me
so I’m sitting still
to listen and learn.
How I want to shoot forth
bold
quick
and bright
like a petunia vine
with irresistible blooms
no one can miss.
Yet you call me to grow
slow
like a native milkweed
whose roots stretch
deep into the ground
drawing their sustenance
from reservoirs of water
no one can see.
You want my roots
deep in you
not only inches deep
like the flashy annual flowers
who live to set their seed
in just one short season.
No, you want me to grow slow
to produce the bloom
that lasts only a week or so
but sustains the monarch butterfly
halfway through her journey
from Mexico to Canada
so her great-granddaughter
can be refreshed
as she passes back through
from north to south
in the months to come.
You want my blooms
producing year after year
in a perfectly timed window
for the benefit of many others.
May I trust you
as you grow me slower
than I think best
because you always know
what’s best for me.
Last year I wrote a post about being resilient like native wildflowers. You can see photos from my garden and read it HERE.
I’m learning to grow slow from Jennifer Dukes Lee’s excellent new book, Growing Slow, along with the companion Bible study.
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