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‘We knew him when,' the people cried.
'We saw him grow to manhood.
We saw him help his father as
each diligent young man would.
Where does he get the notion
that he has a right to speak thus?
How could he be a prophet, come
from God on high to seek us?'

'He speaks as with authority.
He speaks as one with answers.
We can’t believe a carpenter
is one of life’s dispensers.'
And so his hometown turned away.
They put no faith in Jesus.
So he did no great work there,
though elsewhere he’d be famous.

Do we, perhaps, the selfsame thing,
who’ve known of him since childhood?
For we don’t get excited now
as someone in the wild would.
For us, Good News, no longer new
has somehow lost its flavor.
Or are we so. accustomed that
we’ve lost our will to savor?

And yet, my friends, do not lose hope.
The Father’s love is boundless.
And if our faith is but lukewarm,
at least it is not groundless.
Perhaps, if God can those forgive
who’ve railed at him and ranted,
He may forgive us, even us
who take him so for granted.