"Oh, yes, there's more,"
Jesus said to his followers,
"lots more–
but there's only so much
that you can absorb
in any one parable,
in any one lifetime of listening…"

"But how, then, do we continue learning?"

"The important thing now,"
he replied,
"is less the learning
and more the living."

Text and image © 2012 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved.