He was too short.
And could not see him for the crowd.
Like Zacchaeus we may hope to court.
But we feel cowed.

How often do we feel short of stature.
And in so many ways.
It may just be part of our nature.
We so often miss out on the sun’s rays.

But he climbed the tree.
And Jesus looked up.
If we try, there’s always a way to see.
And to look at reality close up.

And come down, will he say.
I must stay at your house today.

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The crowd is too dense
And no one notices us
So just clean me the tree.

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See Luke 19: 1-10