my son gets baptized.
Steps into water.
Clear and clean.
Today
my son will follow Jesus' example.
Professing faith.
Before others who belong to Jesus.
Today
my son will go under the water.
Be brought back up.
A symbol of the Kingdom's required second birth.
Today
I will baptize
this blond boy with whom I labored.
This little man I delivered
against doctor's odds
and medicinal predictions.
Today
this symbol of rebirth
will be performed
by the mother who pained
to give him birth in the first place.
My second born
at second birth.
My flesh-son
now Spirit-brother.
Levi has been born.
And is born again.
Today
we celebrate
what God has
done.
And today
I am thankful
for the tender part I have been allowed to play in each birth.
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