Madonna and Child...

Although this coming Sunday should, in theory, be about John the Baptist, we're not going there due to a Nativity play the following week during worship.  Instead, this Sunday, we'll focus on Mary and angel voices and suchlike.  As part of worship, I'll be reflecting on Mary and possibly using this poem I wrote a wee while back:

Madonna and Child

So young,

so young to bear the One

to bear the weight

of all the world

inside your womb

and yet,

to bear that weight

has always been

a woman's fate,

her lot.

So small,

so small first-born for all

who bears the weight

of pain and weeps

and heals the wounds

and yet,

who bears that weight

as Son of Man

for pure love's-sake,

as God.

                   c. Nikki Macdonald

                                               picture by Sieger Koder