Luke 1: Zechariah and Mary

No surprise, perhaps,

    that the impossible’s not

a boundary    for the one who lit stars

and sculpted the mountains,           watered –

drew water from –    our rock.

Yet unexpected now, this figure

in temple,       in dreams,

beholding and saying

what’s seldom been said, more seldom believed:

The barren with child?

     A new way prepared?

        The virgin a mother?

           The hearts of the parents

                turned to their children,

        and souls taught to thirst after justice?

Behold –

these microscopic miracles of everyday grace:

Life folded in             zygotic life,

            faith found in anguish,

the courage of obedience,

speechlessness turned

to vocal trust,

     all caught up in

the moment of saying,

       “I am His servant.

    Let it be so with me.”