A Prayer for Green Hope

A Prayer for Green Hope 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, written from 6:25 a.m. to 6:30 a.m., Friday, March 5, 2021. Today’s prompt is “Green,” and here is my prayer/poem.

A Prayer for Green Hope

 

O God of green hope,

Open my eyes to see your hope

sprouting all around me.

 

In the bright white light

of March afternoons

help me seek

everything and anything

green

and see the leaves and tendrils

unfolding

as promises fulfilled.

 

What a long year it’s been

since our world turned upside down.

How could any of us have known

what these twelve hard months

would hold.

Today we need your green

fresh

living

hope

more than ever, Lord.

 

My heart is glad

to find it

in my lawn

on roadsides

and in pastures.

Poking through

the driest grasses

thickest clay

grittiest gravel.

Nothing will stop

this green’s arrival

just as it has come

every single spring.

 

May the green we see

this spring

not only heal us

from all the charred scars

of a painful year

but remind us

of the evergreen hope

of your second coming

Jesus

we can expect

sure as spring

arrives in a green robe

year after year.

 

Want a free printable with verses of hope? Check out this post to download, and view photos of the prayer walk I mention in today’s prayer-poem.

Also, see my recent Instagram post for more encouragement to keep seeking hope.

Finally, join me on this hopeful guided meditation video:

 

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