another babe

Some very GREAT news 'bout a very small

child of both of yous; holy, so she'll call

out to Yahweh who's the Most High of all

- may his daughter choose to trust when she falls.

And may Mum & Dad model simple trust

when the news is "bad", when things start to bust.

Learning from this Na - Omi Grace Isa

Yohana Roza-li how to cry sa

much, & from the heart, when things aren't so good:

'specting you to start & respond as should

one who really loved & wants us to grow

often we feel shoved, but don't want to know

'bout that growing bit, we don't want the pains

or the feeling clipped, we just want the gains;

like an athlete who just wins every race

without training to help us keep the pace.

So God, here we are, thinking of this small

child Naomi's far more dependent call;

and the fact that she can not do a thing,

yet she teaches we, who would learn to sing*.

* consider the parable of the singer, by George MacDonald.