JAMBEROO ABBEY

We shared this beautiful poem by Colleen Keating last year but it bears repeating. I love that phrase, “gardeners of hope”…a wonderful image to take with us into the day and the new year ahead. Christmastide blessings of hope and miracles to all!

Gardeners of hope

perhaps when we are caught
in the world’s tumult

when we see the edge
falling away from under us

perhaps in time of overwhelm
in this wrecked and shimmering world

when we seem to be in between times
with hope a misty horizon

we can wall our hearts
put on armour of fear
turn away complacently

yet it is “the tiny not the immense”
Francis Webb reminds us
will teach our seeking eyes

Christmas beckons us
to be the gardeners of hope
tending the earth nurturing the soil
with love art beauty poetry

it calls us
to be the ones waiting
for the miracle to come

Colleen Keating