We have a new grandchild on the way.
We’re not sure of all the ancestry
that comes into play,
but our best guess is this —
he or she will be a rainbow coalition of bliss.
There will be Irish, Scotch-Irish and German,
Cherokee, Hispanic and, maybe even
African-American.
This child will help us get back to where
we all came from,
helping us see that we are all
out of Africa
and therefore all one.
Now, I’ll be the step-grandfather who
wishes his Dutch and Swedish blood could
have been in the mix,
but as we are all God’s adopted children
by grace,
I believe I will see a child of every stripe
and race
who just by being here,
might help our warring ways to fix.
“Jesus loves the little children,
all the children of the world.
Red and yellow, black, brown and
white,
they are precious in his sight.
Jesus loves the little children
of the world.”