What Harvest?As fruit grows beyond the help of sun and rain, grows sweeter, sweeter still, and then begins to rot, so we no longer thrive, no longer strengthen with each day. We have long been ripe and soon -- to this world -- will be naught. What seed will we feed as we decay? It is natural to nourish as we decline. Do we already have a new life on the way, or will we strengthen the soil for other lives? No child of God is ever truly barren but what sprouts within me may not be of earthly lineage. We are blessed to share in mystery, in truth, and in love on our tree. Lord, whoever our children may be, it is my prayer that love be our legacy. –A.M. Otwell, 2004 |