A Little Wind

A Little Wind

by Beverly Ewart 

A little wind wafts a seed over plains

and tickles clouds until they rain.

A little wind can make the sun come out again.

A little wind will help the seed to grow,

will drop it in the perfect hole,

then fly away to brush the earth from pole to pole.

And when there's snow, that wind will circle back;

unseen, the frosted soil attack,

and warm the frozen ground to make the brown husk crack.

The pale flicker will become a seedling,

and then a tender stalk of green,

and then, the mighty oak – a majestic being!

The heart is stirred by just a little wind.

A little hope stirred will begin

a mighty prayer of faith to move that oak again...

Like our God, we are compelled by chaos

to harbor those storm-tossed,

and make a shelter in the desert for the lost.

The wind that brought to us this mighty oak,

that holy Wind we now invoke

to transplant our shade to where there is no hope;

to carry to our neighbor's empty hands

this fruitful tree, our mighty friend,

to be a shelter from the storm in that dry land.

So, let our praying move the Wind of God

to lift out rocks and break the sod -

let that Wind move us to commend you to the Lord.

A little wind will bring a little rain

to soften earth and ease the pain

of that transplanted oak on the barren plain.

And great will be the fruit of that great tree!

A little wind may blow to me

the news of just how rich the harvest comes to be.