Lenten Sonnet | March 4, 2017—Andrew Peterson

"O God of Heaven, hear my prayer..."

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In addition to being the founder of the Rabbit Room, Andrew Peterson is a singer, songwriter, poet, and the author of the popular children’s series, The Wingfeather Saga.

This poem is part of a series of sonnets for Lent.

Lenten Sonnet | March 4, 2017

by Andrew Peterson

O God of Heaven, hear my prayer, I pray:
Bless the ones who believe they don’t believe,
Who cannot rest their minds at close of day,
Whose clouding doubts go so long unrelieved,
Then rain a thousand fears on fields of clay.
Whisper, while they sleep, a story of grace
That when they wake they might see the green play
Of new life in cracked ground, the interlace
Of shoot and bud and stem as leaf unfolds
To cast cool shade beneath the blaze of day,
Till all the unbelief a cold heart holds
Bolts, withers, turns to seed and breaks away,
Scatters skyward and drifts as the warm wind blows
To good earth where root dives and feeds the rose.

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