stirring deep longings,
and yet
we settle for mediocrity
in the day to day.
Are we simply a cosmic accident
or important
characters embarking
on a hero's journey?
At the end of a long night shift,
an exhausted fisherman
is drafted and grudgingly
shares his boat.
Fighting yawns,
he listens,
knuckles denting
grizzled cheeks,
intrigued.
After talking
comes the absurd request -
"Let down your nets."
When logic fails,
Simon obliges.
Muscles screaming
and head throbbing,
he and his partners toss
freshly cleaned nets
into slate colored water.
Then the impossible happens -
nets fill beyond capacity
in dawn's milky light -
and Simon chokes
on his fear.
This is not a world he recognizes
and he clutches his
small understandings
and squeezes his eyes shut,
saying, "go from me."
Jesus gently reaches down,
invites Peter from his
calloused knees
and into a bigger story.
The choice is between
the predictable world
that logic and science dissect,
a world that can be measured
and quantified -
coins counted by a miser
behind closed shutters -
and the unknown
adventure story
filled with causes that matter
and a Hero whose heart
can be trusted.
