DID JESUS?

Did Jesus find it difficult,
almost impossible, to find time
to look deep into the grains
of a newly cut plank of wood?

Did Jesus find it difficult
to walk by so many flowers,
so many shades of green,
so many birds in the air?

Did Jesus find it difficult
to walk by so many beggars,
so many widows, so many
children, so many cripples,
in the marketplace each day?

Did Jesus find it so difficult
that he had to burst out of
Nazareth that day – and walk
towards the sick, the beggars,
the difficult, and the wood?

© Andy Costello, Reflections, 2009