Man The Man Went Looking For

https://www.flickr.com/photos/davic/2644599418/
The photographer is David Cornejo. I like this.
"Come here," the man says. Like he knows you will.

There were two who followed      the man

with little more than an invitation to show
where he was staying but when    the man
decided to leave that place            he
went looking and found a third.

Looked for him, like he was special.

                                                     The man
told him to follow and he did,
but not before convincing
a skeptical friend to tag along.

Do you see yourself among the four,
two recognizing what they'd sought
in other places was right there,
going down the road,
kicking up little spurts of dust,
running to catch up.

The skeptic who                         the man
congratulated for his honesty of thought,
then gently chastened him for honest doubts.

The man                                      the man
went looking for.        Like he was special.


(c) Ellen Gillette, 2014

Reading in the gospel of John this afternoon, it struck me as it has never done on previous readings, that when Jesus decided to leave he "found Phillip." He went looking for him, in other words. Singled him out. There's something there.