God must delight as trees leaf out—
It's easy for imagining:
Creation's Artist pleased about
Life's color-rich reburgeoning,
and how curled hands of baby leaves
roll out, grow, open to receive.

It shows how much those leaves want light
that plants devote some energy
toward angling leaves to tilts just right,
and filling space in canopies.
They'll start new stems where there were none
to catch each, ev'ry beam of sun.

God, you do nourish plants and buds.
We see them lean toward light you give.
Besides the light, though, there's for us
forgiveness, worth, relationship....
So like new leaves, we'd lean now, too,
drawn to catch even more of you.

(This version of words is for the tunes SUSSEX CAROL or ST. CATHERINE.
For the tunes RYBURN or THE SOLID ROCK, the last line should be "drawn forward to catch more of you.")

This song/hymn is about how God offers blessing, and wants people to accept it.

The text would be useful for spring worship occasions, and is fairly versatile, with with options for tunes and presentations.