A Farmer’s Prayer

Make sunrise early and the sunset wait;

Make summer early and the winter late!

Allow the crops to sprout and thrive

And give me hope to man the drive.

Please let the raindrops fall at night

And keep the ground firm in daylight.

Make all my callouses a bit more tough

When times are hard and life gets rough.

Please, bless the plow that parts the furrow

And earth in which our hopes shall burrow.

Supply enough of sweat and blood

To drive on when bad luck should flood.

Bus most of all…

Please keep my spirit in your palm

My will intact, my body strong.

My family close, my faith untaxed,

My heartbeats tight, my laughs relaxed!

Amen.