Harvest Gifts
©1993 Susan Noyes Anderson
Image by Camille Pissarro – The Harvest
Our great grandparents knew about the harvest:
the months of labor gathered in with care…
the gratitude for every hard-earned blessing…
the love for home and hearth…the need to share.
They somehow understood, with true thanksgiving,
the beauty in the sowing they had done;
and when the season ended, in their reaping,
they sensed another cycle had begun.
For growing is the purpose of creation;
we are but branches on our Savior’s vine.
The choice is ours; His table’s set before us…
What will we offer Him, come harvest time?
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Tags: Autumn, Christ, family, gratitude, great-grandparents, growth, harvest, home, seasons, thanksgiving
Susan Noyes Anderson
Susan Noyes Anderson is the author of At the End of Your Rope, There’s Hope, Deseret Book, ©1997; Awaken Your Spiritual Power: The Fairy Godmother Isn’t Coming!, Karisma Press, ©1999; and His Children (poetry only, photos are by Anita Schiller), Vantage Point Press, ©2003.