He kicks and pushes with his legs, but the soles of his feet are as soft as any other part of him: I touch them and marvel to think he will one day be man-grown with calloused soles.
Before we brought him home they pricked his heel, collecting spots of blood to screen for various diseases. He screamed and screamed: offspring of woman, heel already bruised by the serpent whose lie begins the sad chapter by which disease entered the world.
In pain I brought him forth, and though I want him to grow to be a man with calloused heels one day, I pray that his soul may not also become calloused — neither to the bruises of his enemy nor to the piercing of his Healer.
HE was wounded for our transgressions, crushed for our iniquities, bore the chastisement that brought us peace; He heals us by His stripes. And then: He has bruised the serpent’s head: immortal God, raised from the tomb, inflicting a mortal wound upon His foe and ours.
Tiny son, know this, though you know nothing else besides; callous those beautiful feet proclaiming this good news: healing for souls.
Linking up with Kate Motaung to write on her prompt, heal.
©2016 by Stacy Crouch
Between Blue Rocks 
Movingly down deep beautiful. I echo amen to your prayer for you son.
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What beautiful words. What a beautiful prayer for your child. Amen and Amen.
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