Fishers of Men

Every day I find the same thing,

Thorns and whips and nails;

Something to suffer along the way

On the search for the Holy Grail;

 

Head winds and updrafts

And eddies and cascades

As I struggle to learn to sail

To float on the currents

Of the unseen darkness

Like a blind man

Reading by Braille;

 

Lost except for a compass within

A longing for return to good port;

Looking at the trip as a serious journey

Than rather a catch or a sport;

 

The water is the call of the spirit and the deep

The wind is a portent of change

My soul is a refuge from the lure of the senses

And from the world which will always seem strange.

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The Living God needs us

To accept our solitary journey and our cross

In order to continue His life today,

The life and redemptive power of His Christ.

See Col 1:24-29

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