You usually think of John
As a contemplator: one whose mind
Had been moulded by dwelling on
The Word.
Why then was this the man
Who craved a high place
In the Lord's kingdom?
Why was this the man
Whose human zeal thought
To call fire from heaven?
Yet it was a mark
Of the Lord's approval
To call him and his brother
Boanerges.
And Christ accepts
No fleshly zeal.
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