CHILDLESSNESS

Inspired by Isaiah 54

No smile of a newborn
No cooing or gurgling
No grasp of a tiny hand around a finger
No tentative first steps
No bible, prayer, bedtime.
No sound of childhood laughter and occasional childhood tears.

But there is an echo of a promise.
A hope for the impoverished.
It is the word of the Lord.

“Sing O barren woman,
you who never bore a child;
because more are the children of the desolate woman
than of her who has a husband”

No longer are the fruitless outcast.
Disgrace and embarrassment are no more.
God casts out fear.

I will have blessings in abundance
I will love much and be loved.
For the Lord is my husband
And in him I am complete.