By Tina M. Smith, Joshua Resource Center client who shared this poem in December 2011 at the Celebration/Graduation.

O, great Lord, I give to you my heart

So a seed you can sow,

Let my body be the roots

to help your seed grow.

Use me O’ Lord along the way

To bring a smile to someone’s day

Cut back the weeds that hang heavy with hurt and pain

By shedding the old I’ll have so much more to gain.

O, great Lord cut through all the strife,

So the seed you planted in my heart

Shall grow into LIFE.