A Farmers Prayer

 

Heavenly Father, King of the Universe, you are the sole source of growth and abundance.  With your help I plant my crops and by your power they give forth a harvest.  Grant me the grace always to work with all my strength and ingenuity in cultivating the soil so that it will bring forth fruits for my benefit and the benefit of all who will use them.

 

Make me ever cognizant that without my part in the work of harnessing the goods of the earth these particular goods would be lacking to my brothers and sisters in this world.  Enable me at the same time to realize that without your part in this process I would be working in vain.  Accept my thanks for your continuous past help and your never-failing assistance in the future.

 

Amen.