zechariah's prayer

luke 1:67-79

my son

my dear one

how long i have waited

for the day of your arrival

and even now

on the very day 

of your birth

i must already

begin to learn

how to let you go

for you do not belong to me

but to the one who formed

and made you

the one who

dreamt you into being

the one for whom

you must

even now

begin to prepare the way

so my job

as your dad

is not to hold onto you

but to let you go

and to allow you to become

all that he made you to be