prayer with a tree theme

I've been re-reading my journal entries for the past couple of years. This is an old habit of mine. Periodically I will take a few days to reread all of my diaries and journals from childhood to today. Sadly, most of my journals are in storage in Portland. The farthest back I can go on this trip down memory lane is back to the spring before I entered the novitiate.

Today I found a little prayer I wrote during my first weeks of the Novitiate.

Root me in your love
Plant seeds of hope
of patience
of love
of joy
of compassion.
Nourish these seeds
so that I may grow strong and tall
in faith, hope and love.
Let my fruits fall freely
to feed and nourish body and soul.
Bend my branches.
Blow my leaves in the wind,
so that I will know and experience
the constancy of your love.
In all. Through all. With all.
Amen

It's amazing to me how much trees have played a part of my spiritual journey these two years!

As to the prayer, all I have to say is be careful what you pray for! ;)