Simon said, “Boss, we worked all night long
and caught nothing.
Yet if you say so, I will let down the nets.”
—Luke 5.5
A beckoning deeper than words
comes to you, an incoming tide,
a hunger not your own,
a hankering greater than all of us.
Love asks something of you,
innocent, outlandish,
like an expectant child.
You don’t need to know or understand,
you needn’t calculate outcomes
or judge whether you are able,
you only need to be willing.
A great shoal of possibilities
swims just beneath your knowing.
You cast your control of things
into the mysterious waters.
The net of holiness
is not belief or understanding
but willingness.
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Steve Garnaas-Holmes
Unfolding Light
www.unfoldinglight.net
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