Adventist youth who know the Truth,
How does your garden grow?
Have you grown weary – ‘quite contrary’ –
While gardening here below?
Does your fruit-tree produce the thorns
Of anger and despair?
And, do you, sometimes harvest hate
From cultivated fear?
Are you surprised, when ill-health sprouts
From seeds of late hours sown?
And weeds of gloom strangle smiles of
Joy, … gentleness all gone?
Do seeds of selfishness run wild
And over-grow your plot,
Causing buds of good deeds to die?
D’you do that which you’d not?
O, hark! Ye planters of life’s sod!
Heed the Husbandman’s voice!
His grand array of seeds consider,
And quickly make your choice!
For, with the spirit’s seed of Love
Embedded in your heart,
Bright buds of Joy, Gentleness, and Faith
Will ne’er from you depart!
Thus, Peace, Long-suffering, Meekness, and
The Goodness of the LORD
Will grant you Temperance in all things,
As you obey His Word.
Then, let His Spirit tend each bud –
The ripe fruit He’ll bestow!
Adventist youth who profess the Truth –
How does your garden grow?
Penned: 1985
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