Hooked by love (Mt 4:14)

There comes a call imperative from Love

To love with a firm heart that reverberates the invitation ‘come follow me;’

The called finds it irresistible and wonders

Am I hooked forever?

A grip from which you can never break off

To breathe the air of life in the flowing water

Hooked and wounded exactly at the mouth,

I would no longer say “save me,” or “let me go”

He draws me out of the water

To a new realm of existence.

To a raised movement from a fixed habitat,

From a structured eco-system to a non-fixed eternal habitat.

He calls out once again to a firm belief – ‘I am He, the One sent by the Father’

An invitation that echoes deep with a mission and a daring promise,

“Come, I will make you fishers of men.”

Heed or not to heed is a necessitated prompt response.