◆刈り入れの祈り◆

"Lord, Your harvest is the harvest of love;

 love sown in the hearts of people;

 love that spreads out like the branches of

 a great tree covering all who seek its shelter;

 love that inspires and recreates;

 love that is planted in the weak and the weary,

 the sick and the dying. The harvest of Your love is

 the life that reaches through the weeds of sin and death to the sunlight of resurrection.

 Lord, nurture my days with Your love,

 water my soul with the dew of forgiveness,

 that the harvest of my life might be Your joy."

~ Frank Topping