2023 Spring Flower Show
MN Landscape Arboretum

 The prayers of Ted Loder speak so often to my own needs for connection, hope, encouragement and direction.  This prayer,“Bring More of What I Dream,” is taken from his book, “Gorillas of Grace”

“O God,
who out of nothing
brought everything that is,
out of what I am
bring more of what I dream
but haven’t dared;
direct my power and passion
to creating life
where there is death,
to putting flesh of action
on bare-boned intentions,
to lighting fires
against the midnight of indifference,
to throwing bridges of care
across canyons of loneliness;
so I can look on creation,
together with you,
and, behold,
call it very good;
through Jesus Christ my Lord.”

“So if anyone is in Christ, they are a new creation: everything old has passed away; see, everything has become new!”  II Corinthians 5:17