“Infant so tender and mild” implies the existence of a chewy and spicy baby
The existence
of rhyme schemes
must make
God giggle
sometimes
Of course newborn
babes
are mild
They cannot even
lift
their own heads
with their wee little necks…
It doesn’t mean
That they are not mighty
with their lungs
and that you as a parent
Do no jump
every time
they snort or sniffle
In a weird way
to check
and make certain
they are still alive.
I also want to point out God
That mild
Is a word
that is conspicuously
absent in the Bible
No one
absolutely no one
is described as mild
in the Nativity texts
it is just a word
that describes all newborns
And is probably the opposite of who Mary* is
Please note
every time someone asks about Mary’s mildness
I want to yell out
it is because it rhymes with CHILD
that is why Mary is described as mild.”
Why do we think Mary was meek and mild? She agreed to bear a child out of wedlock in defiance of her culture. She sang a song of liberation and freedom for the oppressed and unjustly treated. She made a rough journey to Bethlehem when heavily pregnant and another to Egypt with an infant (note evidence says it was probably a pre-schooler which may have been WORSE). She was a revolutionary, a fitting mother for her rebel son.
I am comforted
in a season where I do not feel mild
that this mildness
is nothing more
than a myth.
@KaitlynSchiess Every Discussion of “Biblical Womanhood” should include the fact that in Luke 1, two pregnant woman celebrate their new motherhood by passionately discussing the coming overthrow of every earthly empire
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