Thank God for each new season
as Autumn we embrace
Now Summer’s heat has dwindled
we harvest gifts of Grace.
Our labour in the garden-
digging, weeding the soil
watering, growing plants, now
rewards us for our toil.
With plump, ripe fruits to harvest
and vegetables to store.
As ripened seeds and grains now
are threshed and stashed indoors.
Just stubbled stalks remain when
hay- bales of grass and weed
are safely stored in barns for
farm creatures’ winter feed.
The orchard trees low bending
with bounteous fruit are crowned.
Rich crops of nuts and good food
that’s ripening all around.
Grapes, apples, pears, feijoas
Tomatoes, grains and seeds
avocados, beans and lemons,
God’s gifts supply our needs .
In brilliant technicolour
leaves crinkle on the trees.
God’s drama is unfolding-
leaves drift down with each breeze.
Showers of blessing falling
while soil absorbs this rain.
Lord as we sow, we will reap
As seasons change again.
By Rosemary Francis
“As long as the Earth remains, there will be planting and harvest, cold and heat, winter and summer, day and night” (Genesis 8 v 22)
Sung to the hymn “The Church is one foundation”to the tune Aurelia 7676 d composed by SS Wesley, 1864 or "From Greenland's mighty Oceans"
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