God's Middleman is a Woman: A Poem for Mother's Day

God’s Middleman is a Woman

(a poem for Mother’s Day)

Seems even God needs an

agent…of sorts

There’s no heavenly factory for

this production

The Creator of All is

absent a shipping

department

Life comes our way through

a middleman who

is a woman

God uses flesh to make

flesh

She is a tender yet

tough disperser

of something

we call birth

God’s grand design needs

loving help

to give life its start

So in the midst

of struggle and pain

there comes a miracle-

a new breath

a child

All because of God’s middleman

and we call her

“Mother”

Jody Seymour

Mother’s Day 2019