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On the Agony and Eventual Profit of Waiting by Kayla McAuliffe
from Legacy 2007
On the Agony and Eventual Profit of Waiting
by Kayla McAuliffe
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The Lord promised her a child;
Sarah waited.
A year, ten years. She
made 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 understood:
the promise was not for her.
Then
Sarah stood out of the way
of a promise that was still
her husband's.
Gave him a new wife.
stood by as the new wife had
the promised child.
Still making breakfast.
still 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.
