J.Rhett Lively

I thought it ridiculous
A man of my age
A woman of hers
To expect a child after so many years barren

Even knowing the Angel was sent
From God’s side to proclaim the news
My human nature had overtaken
The faith I claimed each day to have

I had been allowed
Through the mercy of hand and pen
To tell my wife the news
And the divine plan for our coming son

And Elizabeth in her wondrous wisdom
Never held any doubt
That what the Angel Gabriel had said
Would come to pass just as he said

Yet as days turned to weeks
Then to months while my child grew
Safe in his beautiful mother’s womb
I stood with her silent, humiliated in my doubt

Even the first week of his life
I could not tell him how precious he was
How much I loved holding him
Or how special he was in God’s eyes

So when the gag was removed
Which had kept my voice silent
No longer shrouded in the humiliation of my doubt
Once I defended his God-given name.

After months of silence
Months of holding it all in
I was final able to share what I’d seen
I was finally able to share what is to come