Why does your master eat with tax collectors.
And sinners.
But then we are all sin collectors.
And perhaps even worse sinners.

It is not the healthy that need the doctor.
But the sick.
Today we think of Matthew the lector.
The evangelists’ yardstick.

What I want is mercy.
Not sacrifice.
Or maybe controversy.
As we throw life’s dice.

Like Matthew do we decide to follow.
Or are we too entangled to follow.

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Matthew got up
He was called and he followed
Do we do the same

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See Matthew 9 : 9-13