“Do not be afraid;
from now on you will be catching people.”
—Luke 5.10
The way you look at water and see what’s beneath.
The way you know the need and habits
of unseen fish,
live your life by their rhythms,
think about them all the time,
and think they’re beautiful.
The way you gather them, the joy
not just of a fish but a shoal, a netful.
And how, if it’s people you’re gathering,
you’re one of them, not different or above,
brought near to each other in something greater,
a web cast in vast steadiness—
all of us caught up together.
Brought close not just to a boat
but a bosom.
Not recruited, but joined,
woven into the net that catches us all,
returning us to each other.
“Catching up alive,” the Greek means,
not snagged, not used,
but drawn, as we are, in love.
Like caught up in a dance.
Something is breathed into us.
We catch by being caught.
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Steve Garnaas-Holmes
Unfolding Light
www.unfoldinglight.net
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