When God Prunes

An impromptu poem on pain and plants

I am like this fiddle leaf fig tree of mine

She was dying when I got her, too much passage of time

Her previous owner was done, she was just too much to do

So I uprooted her from her home, maybe the only one she knew

I rinsed off her roots of the soil she was in

Did she think I was starving her? That soil had sustained her til then

I cut away the rotting roots, did she feel any pain?

All I knew was that I just couldn’t leave her the same

I put her in a new home and even new soil too

Put she still didn’t thrive…so I did the hard thing to do

I sterilized my shears and cut her down bare

And I did it all because of the love that was there

Then I started to cry because I knew it was true

God had done the same to me because He knew He had to

When I first came to Him, I was just trying to survive

But He cared for me like this tree so I could flourish and thrive

He uprooted me from the comforts that felt like my home

He did it with care but I felt so alone!

He washed away everything that sustained me before

He cut and He cut til I said

“Lord, I can’t take this anymore!”

How much more can You take?

This was all a mistake!

Surely I hadn’t been all THAT bad,

Lord, did you not see all the leaves I’d had?? ”

And as He gently placed me in my new pot,

He said, “It was inside your soul that lay all the rot.

Man looks at the outside, but I see the heart.

And I did what I did so you can have a fresh start.”

Then I looked down and saw not a pot,

But grafted to Him was my actual new spot

Then He said “I am the vine and you are the branches,

Don’t you know that I AM a God of second chances?”

Suddenly I was filled with a love I never knew

So big it filled all the rotted holes anew

Where I once felt so empty, now I was made whole

Because my God is the gardener of my soul

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