SermonStudio
Ascension Day
Poems
A GOSPEL TREASURY
Poems Based on Lectionary Gospels
Only twelve were called,
only twelve.
Fishermen, a tax collector and such,
simple men,
common men they were,
called by a carpenter.
Braggart, doubter, deserter,
fearful men they were,
impulsive, undependable,
sometimes cowardly.
And yet they changed the world.
What are your faults?
They are many.
I know them well.
They are mine.
And yet -- perhaps,
if we hear our call,
and follow -- together,
we, too, can change the world.
only twelve.
Fishermen, a tax collector and such,
simple men,
common men they were,
called by a carpenter.
Braggart, doubter, deserter,
fearful men they were,
impulsive, undependable,
sometimes cowardly.
And yet they changed the world.
What are your faults?
They are many.
I know them well.
They are mine.
And yet -- perhaps,
if we hear our call,
and follow -- together,
we, too, can change the world.