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                                Theol­ogy of the Garden Bench

God’s good, green earth is holy, and must be reverenced
As an act of His Creation, a work of His hands
And of His breath, His singing into being
This glorious epiphany in which we live

Our little children live close upon the earth
Laughing and tumbling through the summer grass
With kittens and puppies as their happy playmates
Sweet Eden’s innocence echoed in them all

And we with our weary, creaky old bones
Repose like royalty on an old wooden bench

And give thanks