Nazarene

Mingled with the rural soil of Nazareth, he laboured He played with the rustics, who were quarrelsome yet loving. Farmers, carpenters, ironsmiths, weavers, and the shepherd These were teachers from whom wisdom, like clear streams, flowed, gushing He pondered along the coast of the Sea of Galilee. Where the breeze amalgamated with saline sea scent blew Where fishermen's strife had been a daily reality In him, the friendliness of the sea folks, day by day, grew. He found the philosophies and theologies of books Put into practice by the Rustics in thoughts, words, and deeds The affluent, on the other hand, seemed cunning and crooks. Nature held them all in equipollence, mending their creeds. Each herb, shrub, plant, tree, bloom, fruit, and weed imparted him wisdom. He drew, by his love, each creature towards Abba's kingdom.