The Gardener

 
The gardener walked among the rows
along his garden wall,
and noticed a large current bush
sanding proud, and tall.

 
With shears in hand he went to work,
this gardener oh so wise,
and pruned the currant bush way down
to about one tenth it’s size.

 
The bush that once was mighty,
now cut down, stem by stem..
and the gardener seemed to understand
as the bush cried out to him..

 
“Just look what you have done to me.
I used to stand so tall.
You have cut me down into a stump,
I’m hardly nothing at all.

 
I thought you were the gardener..
How could you do this thing?”

 
‘I am the gardener little bush,
and though you don’t yet see,
I cut you down so you’ll become
all you were meant to be’.

 
‘I know it’s hard, The gardener said,
but I did it for your good.
You’ve stopped producing needed fruit,
and are nothing more than wood.

 
You now have the potential
to become all you can be.
Rise up now, and bear great fruit
for all the garden to see’

 
“You’ve made me happy current bush.
I could not ask for more.
Yours is the best and sweetest fruit
that you have ever bore.
 

 
A very grateful current bush,
Remembering grief expressed,
Cried, ‘Master, please forgive me.
How wisely you have blessed.

 
You stripped me of my useless pride.
Cut me down, so I could see.
The wisdom of your pruning shears,
made me all that I can be.”

 
In the garden of our life,
we have a Gardener too.
He’s God, our Heavenly Father,
and He cares for me and you.
 

 
That we reach our full potential,
Is part of His great plan.
His “pruning shears” can make us strong.
His love is our watering can.