Here’s
a beautiful reflection on Jesus’s call to the fishermen: Simon, Andrew, James
and John (Mark 1:14-20, Matthew 4:18-22).
It was written by Jan Richardson, and posted on the painted prayerbook.
Blessing the Nets
You
could cast it
in
your sleep,
its
familiar arc
embedded
in your
muscle
memory
after
months
years
a
lifetime
of
gathering in
what
you thought
would
sustain you
forever.
You
would not
have
imagined
it
would be so easy
to
cast aside,
would
never have believed
the
immediacy
with
which your hands
could
release their
familiar
grip,
could
let it go,
could
let it simply continue
its
arcing path
away
from you.
But
when the call came
you
did not hesitate,
did
not pause,
did
not delay
to
follow,
as
if your body
had
suddenly remembered
the
final curve
of
the arc,
as
if the release
begun
in your hands
now
passed through you
entirely
and
you let go
of
everything
to
cast yourself
with
abandon
upon
the waiting
world.
~
written by Jan L. Richardson, and posted on The Painted Prayerbook. http://paintedprayerbook.com/
