Fertile soil prayer

Prayer for the Fifth Sunday of Lent

Mothering God, 
who created Earth 
and formed 
rhythms and seasons 
and cycles:
I celebrate the 
coming of spring
once again. 

As the warming sun 
melts frozen earth into
mud and snowdrops bloom,
emerald moss invites me
to lay down my head 
and listen to earth’s heartbeat.
Give me pause here, 
God of mystery, 
to stop and ponder 
what lies beneath. 

Do not let me turn away
from examining the unseen
places deep within. What
secrets are hidden there?
What wisdom have you 
planted, what seeds of 
transformation are just waiting 
for the right conditions? 

Make of me fertile soil
where spring’s eternal 
lessons of regeneration
might take root and grow:
death is not the end
of the story, but rather
the place of new beginnings.

Amen.

- Wendy Janzen