I have calmed and quieted my soul, like a weaned child with its mother; my soul is like the weaned child that is with me.
Psalm 131:2
Abandoned to a Chinese orphanage,
Elizabeth snuggles, secure and safe
in Rachel’s anxious and adopting arms –
mother and daughter content in their embrace.
Elizabeth snuggles, secure and safe
in Rachel’s anxious and adopting arms –
mother and daughter content in their embrace.
Uncertain waiting yields a bond of love
as strong and real as womb or gene or breast.
Which one will claim she had the most to give?
Which heart is most mysteriously blessed?
Half-a-world-apart, bureaucracies
match this specific child with this mother,
heedless of God’s hidden beneficence,
divine embrace extends to the other.
Abandoned and alone, I am amazed
to find comfort in the divine embrace.
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