November 20, 2020

My Journey to God

And the Crowd Yelled “Barabbas”

On a stage long ago in a faraway place
Two men stood condemned:
And the crowd yelled “Barabbas.”
Barabbas was popular, the other not so much:
And the crowd yelled “Barabbas.”
Barabbas was a political figure, a rebel, and a villain,
But the kind you could love:
And the crowd yelled “Barabbas.”
The other was meek and spoke of love and forgiveness;
He’d fed some and healed others:
But the crowd yelled “Barabbas.”
The officer in charge pleaded for the other:
But the crowd yelled “Barabbas.”
Today too, at the big and not-so-big, local and even personal level,
We all face daily choices.
May we, unlike them, yell out “Jesus.”
And in doing so, may we
Speak love and forgiveness to each other,
Feed and heal one another.

By Sonny Shanks
 

(Sonny Shanks is a member of St. Joseph Parish in Corydon.) †

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