My dear friends, it took at least 3 reads for me to have some precious sense of the gift of this poem, just warning you, one read is not enough...  Pam  What Is This Faithful Process  What is this faithful process of spirit and seed  that touches empty ground  and makes it rich again?  Its greater workings  I cannot claim to understand.  I only know that in its care,  what has seemed dead is dead no longer,  what has seemed lost, is no longer lost,  that which some have claimed impossible,  is made clearly possible,  and what ground is fallow  is only resting –  resting and waiting for the blessed seed to arrive on the wind  with all Godspeed.  And it will.   ~ Clarissa Pinkola Estes, The Faithful Gardener