Proper 24
Poems
A GOSPEL TREASURY
Poems Based on Lectionary Gospels
James and John were fishermen,
the sons of Zebedee.
They left their nets and followed
from the shores of Galilee.
One day they took the Lord aside
and asked of him a boon.
Their wish was understandable
but hardly opportune.
They wanted him to promise
that when he to glory came,
he’d seat them close on either hand,
that they might share the same.
How little did they realize
just what it was to ask.
His glory was no easy road,
but life-consuming task,
To be immersed, as Jesus was,
in earthly stress and pain
and drain his cup of bitter gall,
rejection and disdain.
Had they but known, I really doubt
that they’d have felt it loss
to be denied to share with him
whose, glory was a cross!
the sons of Zebedee.
They left their nets and followed
from the shores of Galilee.
One day they took the Lord aside
and asked of him a boon.
Their wish was understandable
but hardly opportune.
They wanted him to promise
that when he to glory came,
he’d seat them close on either hand,
that they might share the same.
How little did they realize
just what it was to ask.
His glory was no easy road,
but life-consuming task,
To be immersed, as Jesus was,
in earthly stress and pain
and drain his cup of bitter gall,
rejection and disdain.
Had they but known, I really doubt
that they’d have felt it loss
to be denied to share with him
whose, glory was a cross!
