The foreigner

After Isaiah 45

I wouldn’t have imagined

in my wildest fantasies

that he would anoint and bless

and raise up a foreigner

to bring justice to his people,

a feared one, a king, and bring

him honor and glory and

strength and riches to use

to reestablish his people,

without price, without reward,

to do it because it was just

and right and ordained.

Never would I have imagined

this. Never.

But he did.

Photograph by Julie Gentry via Public Domain Images. Used with permission.