Blessing for Mothers To Be

Earth Mother

Blessing for Expectant Mothers

           by Lynn L. Caruso

Remember always, your body is sacred ground.

Your roots are strong and the sun holy.

The gardeners who came before-

mother, grandmother, great-grandmother-

Tilled your soil with the compost of their lives.

And now, you hold the seeds.

Plant them deeply in the furrow  of this land.

May what comes to you as flowers

One day ripe into fruit,

And in your final years,

May they return as shade.