Planted

A seed unsown is all alone
and will never know the wonder
of what may be if it is sown
in faith and hope plowed under
And so the life that trusts the knife
that cuts the stalk in pruning
removing waste removing rife
while meek and unassuming
Except a seed fall in the ground
it finds not what God granted
but die to self and thus abound
we fulfill God’s purpose planted
Into the field by faith I yield
what some may call disaster
but in the dying I am healed
in the will of Christ my Master -id