It’s Holy Week
and our garden
is such an inspirational place
to spend time.
There is so much life here,
so much hope!

From the shade of a young oak,
Danny’s rose bush
reaches for the sky
producing gentle, yellow flowers
in summer-time –
flowers that were Danny and Dolores’s
pride and joy!

But in recent years
Danny’s rose bush
started to look
a wee bit straggly
so, just a few weeks ago,
Paul pruned it away back,
right down to knee-height again.
Then he carefully tidied away
the fallen, thorny branches
and left it,
all set for a spurt of growth
as spring unfolds.

A couple of weeks later
when Paul is tidying up
in the garden
he spies a tiny length
of rose branch –
a wee cutting
that got away!
When he bends down
to pick it up
he finds, to his amazement,
that it has taken root
and closer inspection reveals
tiny leaves of dark green and red
that are beginning to sprout!

In Holy Week,
this three inch cutting
of rose bush
is bursting with promise
of the Resurrection –
thank you, Lord!
(Danny and Dolores
would be so proud!)

© Claire Murray, 13th April 2020