Gospel Fishing – I Feel Like A Fish

Gospel Fishing – I Feel like A Fish.

I feel like a fish in

the seaweed of my parents’ gospel

which sheltered me from that

shark-cruising ocean

but which also kept me from seeing

the bright strands of the fisherman’s net

cleaving me from my ocean

into that great draught

pulled from the other side of the boat

flopping with my equally startled brethren

into the kingdom of the

Fisher of men.

 

* A poem by David Bellinger, a fellow classmate of Steve and Sheri in the class of 1971 at Wheaton College. He wrote this poem while still a student with us at Wheaton. His father was a political science professor at Wheaton as well.