A Prayer for Planting a Garden

"May the works of my hands become points of blessing in the upper
worlds. May my planting and tending this earth add blessing and
abundance to this world, and may the prayers woven by this work arouse
the spiritual sap that will nourish these plantings, to make the flow
of love and blessing flow over them, so that they grow and bloom, for
good and for blessing, for good life and for peace. May what grows in
this earth and in our hearts add to the ripening of the fruit of “the
Tree of Life in the midst of the garden.” May the whole of Creation
return to its original strength, and may all the sparks scattered by
our wrong deeds return to be included in the majestic might of the
Tree of Life, alongside all the sparks gathered and made whole by our
good and loving deeds in this world."  -Rabbi David Seidenberg