A Farmer's Prayer

Make sunrise early and the sunset wait; make summer early and the winter late! Allow the crops to sprout and thrive and give me hope to man the drive. Please let the raindrops fall at night and keep the ground firm in daylight. Make all my callouses a bit more tough when times are hard and life gets rough. Please, bless the plow that parts the furrow and earth in which our hopes shall burrow. Supply enough of sweat and blood to drive on when bad luck should flood. Dear Lord, I ask you bless the seeds and spare them from the choke of weeds. Help them arise from in the ground and bear enough to go around. But most of all... Please keep my spirit in your palm my will intact, my body strong, my family close, my faith untaxed, my heartbeats tight, my laughs relaxed!