Zoom

ZOOM

Yellow blossoms seen

under leaves of green.

There’ll be zucchini soon.

Maybe in time for noon.

A little six-inch zucchini picked for lunch.

Before I know it there’ll be a whole bunch.

Can’t wait to make zucchini cupcakes.

One afternoon I’ll grate than bake.

Can't wait

to bake!

I'll even share with you

for sharing is nice to do.

Rain heard in the middle of the night

grew the zucchini big. What a sight!

More than I can carry.

I’d better not tarry.

I’ll grate and then freeze.

I’ll blanch for when need.

I’ll share with neighbors.

I’ll eat for dinner.

More rain forecasted later in the week

combined with the summer’s afternoon heat

zucchini will again zoom.

There’ll be a zucchini boom!

That’s how it is each year with gardening.

Either boom or bust while everyday tending.

Not just zucchini but lots of tomatoes or cucumbers too,

beans or potatoes or winter squash. What will the gardener do?

Wait! Didn’t the gardener pray when she planted?

Didn’t God hear her prayer and her request was granted?

Sometimes we don’t seem to know what is the best for us –

like a garden full of vegetables from God whom we trust.

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Sometimes we don’t know how to pray for what we ought.

So be careful what you pray for, you just might get it.

Sometimes we don’t get what we pray for because we ask amiss.

We have the wrong motives for it. It should be taken off our list.

Prayer is communication with God, the Creator,

who is holy, yet attainable. There is none greater.

Prayer is knowing God hears when we call

and He’s available to one and all.

Prayer is trusting the God of the universe

to take care of us before our problems get worse.

Prayer is knowing God will answer in His perfect time

for God’s timetable is different from human time.

Prayer is putting our faith in God, not our self,

who wants His best for us and has a plan to help.

Prayer is done anywhere at anytime

for any reason to God, who is kind.

Prayer is thanking God for His faithfulness every day,

it’s asking for direction when we don’t know to go or stay.

Prayer is interceding for others with burdens

for praying brings relief from fears, worries, and problems.

Prayer is communicating with the greatest power,

Almighty God, who’s available at any hour.

Prayer is developing friendship with God, our maker,

who is ready and able to be our burden taker.

Prayer is powerful.

Prayer is wonderful.

Prayer is all this and so much more.

Pray to find out what God has in store.

The Lord our God is near us whenever we pray to him.

Deuteronomy 4:7

The Spirit helps us in our weakness.

We do not know what we ought to pray for,

but the Spirit himself intercedes for us

with groans that words cannot express.

And he who searches our hearts

knows the mind of the Spirit,

because the Spirit intercedes for the saints

in accordance with God's will.

Romans 8:26-27

When you ask, you do not receive,

because you ask with wrong motives,

that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.

James 4:3

Pray for each other so that you may be healed.

The prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective.

James 5:16

Be joyful always; pray continually;

give thanks in all circumstances,

for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus.

I Thessalonians 5:16-18

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