Conversion

(Christ Calling His First Disciples by Adam Brenner)

NICODEMUS

     But tell me why; why did you follow Him?

JOHN

     I think it was our feet that followed Him;

     It was our feet; our hearts were too afraid.

     Perhaps indeed it was not in our choice;

     He tells us that we have not chosen Him,

     But He has chosen us. I only know

     That as we followed Him that day He called us

     We were not walking on the earth at all;

     It was another world,

     Where everything was new and strange and shining;

     We pitied men and women at their business,

     For they knew nothing of what we knew—

NICODEMUS

     Perhaps it was some miracle He did.

JOHN

     It was indeed; more miracles than one;

     I was not blind and yet He gave me sight;

     I was not deaf and yet He gave me hearing;

     Nor was I dead, yet me He raised to life.

~Andrew Young (From Nicodemus)