Madonna & Child
By Nikki Macdonald
Nikki is a part of the Scottish Episcopal Church and is reading Divinity at New
College, the University of Edinburgh. She writes, facilitates workshops, is a
part-time ecumenical chaplain in a shopping mall and in her spare time is a
Member of the Iona Community.

So young, so young, to bear the One
to bear the weight
of all the world
inside your womb.
And yet...
to bear that weight
has always been
a woman's fate,
her lot.

So small, so small, first-born for all,
who bears the weight
of pain & weeps
And heals our wounds.
And yet...
who bears that weight
as Son of Man
for pure love's sake,
as God.

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