On
the Agonij and Eventual Piofif of Waiting
-Kaqla mcAuliffeThe Lord promised her
a child;
Sarah waited.
A
year, ten years.
made
She
her husband's breakfast,
paid the servants.
oversaw the plantings and harvests.
Twenty
harvest.
Every year her hair turning grayer, the skin around her knuckles pooling.
She waited
until she
the promise
was not
understood: for her.
Then
way
Sarah stood out of the
of a promise that was
still
her husband's.
Gave him
a
new wife. new wife had
stood by as the the
promised
Still still
making
child.
breakfast.
paying the servants. She
watched the son of her husband grow, year by year, herself growing colder, loosing her spirit.
loosing her husband to a child
they could not share.
Her posture drooping.
Her prayers sobs. Sarah waited.
The Lord
relieved her suffering.
Ninety years. She had a son.
May He
be so gracious to me.
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