Arm-in-Arm Awaiting

‘I shall multiply your seed as the stars of heaven and as the sand on the seashore’* As if Father Abraham could count them all -- at that very moment he stood so tall And now we, his descendants, over 4,000 years later yearning for this promise of God to be fulfilled Midst pogroms and holocausts down through the ages Israel’s faithful have ever stood ... ... arm-in-arm, awaiting the population explosion God promised Abraham, our father, long ago chosen ___________________________________________ *Genesis 22:17