The Tree Remembers

March 6, 2023 | Sharla Moody YC ‘22

image description: tree in black and white

The tree remembers, the ax forgets: those 

nights You carved me out of my wants and toiled 

to make a sapling out of all these bare,

burnable, precious branches. Lord, do You

remember how it hurt me to be chipped

into pieces, to discard all my loves,

to bear fruits that I have never tasted?

Did You keep these branches, Lord, knowing that

I would gnaw away each day with vicious 

teeth at the fruit You grafted onto these

lifeless limbs? Lord, Your tree remembers, my 

ax forgets that the Gardener grows an 

orchard of His trees, and waters their

roots, and feeds hungry wood-chippers like me. 

This piece is a part of a series for Lent 2023. Read more at https://www.yalelogos.com/lent2023