tickledin(thekeyof)pink

posted by : legosdream

Are you ready?

For next March?

That’s when baby arrives.

That’s what everyone’s asking.

Will I be ready.

Ready for the arrival.

Ready to be a father, daddy, 爸爸。

So my ready-made, generic answer’s been, “I guess I’ll be”.

Or “I’ll have to be”.

So this weekend at church I got a “bevy” of the same.

“You ready?”

“You going to be a father…”

Et cetera.

As I began to deliver more of the same, I felt an epiphanic answer come on.

I AM already.

A father.

A daddy.

A 爸爸。

At inception.

How apt, in these times of debates, conventions and election.

I am, not because I am ready.

Ready physically.

Ready emotionally.

Ready spiritually.

All that will be a life long journey.

I am, not because I am ready.

I am.

Because I’m already.