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Friday, April 21, 2023

Pruning (Poem)


 Pruning
By Henry Beer

When spring has come and snow recedes,
And the chilling March wind blows,
I go to prune the apple trees,
The grape vine, and the rose.

I prune the trees which are too high,
And such that are too low;
And some have barren rampant growth,
On which no fruit will grow.

Some trees have branches all entwined,
And thus no fruit they bear.
I cut, and saw, and prune them out,
That light may enter there.

The grape vine, too, has gone astray
And far their vines have run;
I hesitate to cut them back-
Alas! it must be done.

I prune the branches of the rose,
Which grows entwined and high.
The rose, when pruned by skillful hands,
More flowers will supply.

My friends, take note, I will explain
A truth profound and rare.
The Master's hand must prune our lives
If we good fruit would bear.

How blest the man who will submit;
He ne'er will suffer loss.
God knows just how to prune our lives,
And cut away the dross.

The barren and the harmful growth
The Master will remove.
He will, by purging of each branch,
His loving kindness prove.



2 comments:

  1. This is a really encouraging poem... It's something I've often thought of whenever I prune plants, especially when I was trying to learn how to prune rose bushes...and was reading somewhere that the weaker growing the bush is, the harder it needs pruned in order to stimulate it to grow more. I was really afraid to follow the directions at first, but I did and that bush became the most healthy and strong growing bush we had! It's an encouragement to me to remember the Lord uses this in our lives (what is painful and to our eyes the opposite of what we would like to go through), to make us grow more. It helped me to think about this tonight...thank you for sharing this.

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    1. Thank you for the comment Sunshine County! I am glad you found this poem to be encouraging. I was thinking of you while I was typing it out. I was remembered the story that you told me about cutting back the rose bushes in the past. :)

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