February 3, 2020

THE  CALLING

Sometimes when doing something else -

a voice from this or that of a half dozen  

injustices we know are in our neighborhood -

can work its way up from a twist in our gut.

It’s then we know it’s time for us to rise –

to drop everything – to fold our nets and

to go fishing elsewhere. Expect excuses.

Buts butt in. But the call keeps calling.

When the scriptures say God hears

the cries of the poor, it means us:

we’re it. We’re the poor and we’re

the called. And they are calling us.

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2020