Midwife's Prayer

In every way I marvel
Awaiting the moment
Of the urgency of the moment
When leaving his sheltering nest
He screams for deliverance
But to get closer to his mom!

In every way I marvel
For any childbirth
No two being the same
In this advent;
One seems to laugh, the other to cry
But everyone wants - and it is for certain -
To be welcome for a kiss!

The Child brings deliverance to this world
And the fate of its confinement
And gives hopeful joy
To a new world
In its latency!

Dear Lord, how beautiful it is!
Christmas awaits us
Giving clear proof
That Life is there
To be loved!

Amen.