Hope out of Pain

Harrowing but Hopeful

 "The plow has savaged this sweet field, misshapen clods of earth picked up, rocks & twisted roots exposed to view, last years growth demolished by the blade. I have plowed my life this way, turned over a whole history looking for the roots of what went wrong, until my face is ravaged, furrowed, scarred.

Enough! The job is done.

 Whatever's been uprooted, let it be Seedbed for the growing that's to come. I plowed to unearth last year’s reasons - the Farmer plows to plant a greening season"

From the poem titled "The Plow" by Jean Janzen, a well-known American Mennonite poet. The poem appears in her 1995 collection Tasting the Dust, published by Good Books.